Many families have photo albums, scrapbooks, heirlooms, or even a memory box which helps them to remember memories and look back on loved ones which might have passed. I think It’s a great way to give younger generations insights on what life was like, it can show them the difference through buildings to clothing and hairstyles. Its also a great way to remember stories as people may forget about stories but when looking back and family albums the memories can start flooding back in.

There is something about having photos in paper format, the vulnerability of that paper makes you take good care of the images helping preserve those memories and growing a closer bond to them. The fact that many peoples only memory of an ancestor is through an image is sad but makes you wonder the power that photography has; as it keeps that person alive in our memories and teaches other people about those times.

Nowadays we take multiple pictures on our phones and newer cameras; this can often lose the meaning of the photo as with older film cameras you were limited to the images you could take so people tried to make the images worth while.