On Saturday, February 7, I presented a program for Columbus Regional Healthcare at their Mind, Body and Spirit women's retreat at CSU's Cunningham Center. The title of my presentation was Photography, Family and the Creative Life. The core of my talk was the Family section, where I discussed family photographs, the visual archives that illustrate our families' histories. I challenged the participants to: Become detectives/archaeologists for their families; to find out who has control of the photos (often the oldest surviving female member of a family), make a visual inspection of the oldest and rarest photos and act immediately to save the ones in danger and copy the others for reproduction and distribution to family members.
I challenge each of you to do the same; it will be the most important photographic project you will ever undertake. Please contact me with any questions; look here for samples of my restorations. If you attended my presentation, contact me for $50.00 off your first restoration.
Protect and preserve your family history and
Keep Shootin'
Kenny
2 comments:
Kenny, I can imagine that your presentation was wonderful. I am not the oldest female in my family, but I am the one with all the old photographs that have survived. What a treasure trove, too! I am working through them an putting the oldest in archival envelopes for safe keeping until I can get around to scanning and restoring. My only wish is that I had a recording of or written information telling about who, what, when, etc. Thanks for posting, we've missed you.
Recently, I took family pictures my mother had from her side and created an album with copies made at Wallmart. I have one postcard that is phenomenal and would like to talk to you about restoring it. It is a picture of Coalport,Pa. where my mother grew up and the street is lined with flags. You can see the General store her grandfather owned--really cool stuff.
I would love to see your presentation too Kenny. :)
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