Will your collection outlive you ?

MooseJam

Have you given any thought to how long your photo collection will last, is it just for your own personal enjoyment and will only last as long as you have the hobby or do you think you will keep it long after you have stopped photographing and will it even outlast you and be something which is passed on to your children and theirs after.

Thirdfox

Well the photos that I take for the college newspaper will probably be put into the archives... I had a canvas done of a photo (which will apparently last for 200 years).

A picture that got put into the Dun Laoghaire County Council heritage files...that'll probably last the longest, not sure will anyone ever see it again though.

Apart from that - it's just for my enjoyment really.

monument

The few that I put on Wikipedia are most likely to last compare to my other pics.

I might open all my Flickr pictures to a CC when I get older.

stewiegriffin08

yeah, I have a few publised places, and On google earth...lol .
Only way to make them big.... Take say 200 good photos, that your proud of... Get a tripod, set it on timer... 10 sec, to take 6.5fps... Get a gun... shoot your brains out... That will surley make you a well known photographer, You would go down in history for that.... What a small price to pay

Fionn

jasus - my house will hardly last 200 years - god knows how long photographs will last!

jaqian

You could always donate them to the National Photographic Archives, which is part of the National Library (www.nli.ie). This is what I plan to do eventually. A lot of organising and tidying to do first though.

DotOrg

i've got several music photos on the walls of the ******* theatre, i expect some of them to last longer than me

i'm sure many of the weddings i shoot willhave the3 photos handed down to kids and grandkids which will outlive me too

thefizz

Will your collection outlive you ?

As most of my prints are Silver Gelatin Fibre Based prints, then yes they certainly will outlive me, my children also.

Fionn

i have loads of photographs that have already outlived my parents and indeed grandparents - it's a buzz looking back on these.

so perhaps someone will look over mine in years to come!!

amcinroy

MooseJam,

This is something I've thought very hard about. Indeed it's very important to me, almost to the extent that it is one of the primary reasons that I photograph.

We don't leave much of ourselves after we die. How are our great grandchildren going to know who we were and what inspired us. I also hope that one of my descendants may even be insipred to take up photography and to recreate some my own photographs 100, 200, 1000 years into the future.

Rather than leave my children a hard drive full of images I plan to leave them a select number of digital images with strict instructions that they be converted to any new technology that comes available and passed down to their children and so on. Hopefully if the photography is interesting enough to be cared for then it will survive. If not, then so be it.

Can't exactly give them a ticking off.

Andy

Cabaal

My printed one's are likely to last many many years unless they burn in a fire, I have one's on wikipedia' which are likely to last until wikipedia dies or someone removes them.

My digital one;'s, I guess as long as there backup and nobody deletes them and knows how to read them with a application

jaqian

amcinroy wrote: »

MooseJam,

This is something I've thought very hard about. Indeed it's very important to me, almost to the extent that it is one of the primary reasons that I photograph.

We don't leave much of ourselves after we die. How are our great grandchildren going to know who we were and what inspired us. I also hope that one of my descendants may even be insipred to take up photography and to recreate some my own photographs 100, 200, 1000 years into the future.

Rather than leave my children a hard drive full of images I plan to leave them a select number of digital images with strict instructions that they be converted to any new technology that comes available and passed down to their children and so on. Hopefully if the photography is interesting enough to be cared for then it will survive. If not, then so be it.

Can't exactly give them a ticking off.

Andy

You should also think about submitting your website to WebArchive.org as well.

Fajitas!

Mine should last a while alright, whether in peoples family albums, magazine archives or other publications' archives. I can't see too much going wrong with the internet either.