Last year someone told me that as a professional photo organiser I was like a pirate hunting for buried treasure and the treasures we helped uncover are precious photo memories. It was something that really appealed to me so I dug out this old snap...
There are a number of ways your photos are at risk: Stickies and ickies Your printed images or slides are at risk from acid, damp, light and lignin Acid found most commonly in old magnetic photo albums, from the ink in pens used to label...
If you read our last blog post we posed the photo organising equivalent of chicken or the egg to you and then suggested that your first priority was to organise your digital photos. If you have done that and are now looking at organising your printed...
Imagine you are starting on a photo organising project, which collections are you inclined to tackle first? The dusty old boxes and albums of physical photos and memorabilia or The digital images scattered across multiple devices? We all know that the digital camera entered the average...
We see many prints that have been damaged as they have been removed from a magnetic album. They are difficult to handle and time consuming to repair. Today we are sharing some tips for working with prints that are in a magnetic album. Archivists have...