Photo Preservation Quotes

I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.

Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live.

I'm from that generation where there aren't that many pictures of me as a baby.

On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life; I have pictures from 13,000 lives.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

It never occurred to me that there were so many wonderful photos that had been orphaned and were out there in the world, waiting to be found. Over time, I found a lot of very strange pictures of kids, and I wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided I needed to make it up.

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.

I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still - why is it so hard to throw them away?