Collecting Photos & Videos
Family photos and videos are scattered across shoeboxes, hard drives, and dozens of phones. Bringing them together protects them and turns them into a shared family treasure.
The problem with scattered media
Today a family's images live in more places than ever, old prints, camera rolls, social media, cloud accounts, aging camcorder tapes. Scattered like this, they're easy to lose and hard for anyone to enjoy as a whole.
Gathering physical photos and video
- Collect prints, albums, and slides from relatives
- Digitize them with a scanner or a photo-scanning service
- Transfer old home movies and tapes to digital before they deteriorate
Gathering digital media
- Ask relatives to share photos and videos from their phones and accounts
- Don't overlook social media, years of images may be stored there
- Collect short video clips, not just stills, they capture motion and voice
Add the context
An unlabeled photo loses meaning over time. While you gather, capture who's pictured, when, and where, ideally by asking the people who remember. That context is as valuable as the image itself.
Bring it all together
Once gathered, store everything in one shared, lasting place so the whole family can view and add to it. A collaborative online tribute or memory page is well suited to this: relatives anywhere can contribute their own photos and videos, and the collection becomes something everyone can revisit for generations.