Between the Pages

The project began with a request to digitize and preserve a collection of family photographs. The client had given me the number of albums, which offered a starting point for understanding its size.

During the assessment, I found loose prints tucked between the album pages, alongside the photographs held in pockets. These additional photographs made the collection larger than the album count alone suggested. Their connection to the surrounding images was not always clear, and neither was their intended sequence.

That raised questions beyond how many photographs needed scanning: which images belonged together, what the family could help identify, and how the loose prints could be housed and kept accessible.

It was a small but revealing part of the assessment. An album count describes the containers; looking between the pages helps us understand the collection.