Write down how you feel about photos from your families past
Photographs are definitely a major part of everybodys lives. They are memories and records of places visited and memories shared. I completely understand why people want to save them from burning buildings.
Will this archiving be affected by the digital revolution?
Yes, archiving is evolving. Archives are now more often constructed and held online. This does have a few if diffrent pitfalls. Now people need to be aware of the need to back up the data that they dont want corrupted or lost through technological error.
Personally I am a champion of printing out the photos that mean the most to you and getting them in a frame and on the wall. Images do nothing stuck on a phone or a hard drive forever. They eneed to be seen otherwise what exactly is there point?
I went through a phase of conducting family photo shoots in exchange for extra social life money. I immediately released to my families a USB stick of all their images with no limit on how many copies they could make. I think that to limit the amount of prints someone can have of an image of their own face is shoddy and rude. Photos should be printed and displayed not hidden away or held to ransom.
A good image is a good image so i do not see a real difference in the significance of looking at them in a digital album or a physical one. My personal preference is to have a beautifully printed image up on the wall where I can see it but that is not an approach that suits everybody.
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