Forgive my pensive moment, but I wonder what photo restoration means to you?
I don't mean in a business or technical sense, but in a larger context.
For me it's like rescueing a memory. Have you ever been going along, minding your own business, then hear something, or smell something, and suddenly you remember something that you didn't even know you'd forgotten? Will you forget it once more?
Or preserving history. Not even our own history, directly, but someone else's. We have these moments, they actually happened, but perhaps the only proof is this fading silver record. And if someone doesn't step in and save it, it will be gone, forever.
And what of the viewer, perhaps someone unrelated to the subject? Can you look at an old photograph, into the eyes of someone long gone, into a moment of their world, and not come away just a fraction deeper than you were? What goes through your mind when you look at anonymous old snapshots, such as found in our Archive?
And the restorer. Surely hours of analysing and working over someone else's memory has to have some lasting effect.
We not only rescue these moments, but underline and preserve them. Each restoration is a moment that stands a chance of lasting, a chance it didn't have before. A moment that can now be shared and cherished.
I don't mean in a business or technical sense, but in a larger context.
For me it's like rescueing a memory. Have you ever been going along, minding your own business, then hear something, or smell something, and suddenly you remember something that you didn't even know you'd forgotten? Will you forget it once more?
Or preserving history. Not even our own history, directly, but someone else's. We have these moments, they actually happened, but perhaps the only proof is this fading silver record. And if someone doesn't step in and save it, it will be gone, forever.
And what of the viewer, perhaps someone unrelated to the subject? Can you look at an old photograph, into the eyes of someone long gone, into a moment of their world, and not come away just a fraction deeper than you were? What goes through your mind when you look at anonymous old snapshots, such as found in our Archive?
And the restorer. Surely hours of analysing and working over someone else's memory has to have some lasting effect.
We not only rescue these moments, but underline and preserve them. Each restoration is a moment that stands a chance of lasting, a chance it didn't have before. A moment that can now be shared and cherished.
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