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Bringing old photographs back
The photographs in the drawer, the box in the cupboard, the one you have been meaning to do something about. What they give back when the years come off them.
19 September 2026 · 4 min read
Seeing them again: bringing an old family photograph back to life
The photograph has been in the drawer for years, and she is fading a little more every year. Here is what happens when the dust and the fading come off and the face you remember comes back.
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19 September 2026 · 5 min read
Her wedding day, seventy years on: bringing a 1950s photograph back to the mantelpiece
A black and white wedding photograph from 1952, kept flat in a drawer with a crease through the middle. What comes back when the creases and the fading go, and who ends up standing in front of it.
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19 September 2026 · 4 min read
The box in the cupboard: what to do with a lifetime of family photographs
You opened the box and the whole family is in there, quietly fading. Where to start, which ones to choose first, and what to do with the ones that look too far gone.
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