Photographs are so precious and yet so easily lost, forgotten or tucked away in albums and boxes. Often the people in the photograph are unknown to us - simply a face of the past. One thing which I plan to do within my degree show is connect a place, name, story or date to the photograph, therefore creating a visual memory which will be worn and treasured.
I came accross the website http://www.timetales.com/ which is a collection of found photographs dating from 1930 - present day. The mystery of the photographs is beautiful but also slightly sad and haunting to some degree. Happy, smiling faces looking out from the pictures frozen in time - I wonder who they were? what they did? where they are now?
''The photographs are found at fleamarkets, thriftshops, some are scooped up from streets and alleyways, fallen from an overstuffed bag or torn pocket. Others turn up in a cabinet’s hidden compartment, found while wandering the rooms of an abandoned house. Now the photos exist by themselves, lost in time. Time Tales does not want to reveal their mysteries. Time Tales asks to be the new home for lost photos, a resting place, for the nameless and the lost.''
- Timetales
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