What are you going to do with your images AFTER . .

kombizz · Oct 6, 2007

Have you ever have plan that what are you going to do with your images AFTER you die?
- Do you keep them and give them to your children or grand children (If they really care about them)
- If you do not have any children, then what else can you do
- give them to a charity to make money out of them by selling them
- bury with yourself in that wet cold grave
- burn them
- keep them as a time capsul somewhere under the ground
or ????

Love to hear your ideas?

TheFlyingCamera · Oct 6, 2007

Hopefully I will have built up a sufficient reputation for my images that I can donate them to an institution, likely a college or university, for them to manage and display. If all else fails, I can try to fob them off on my high school, which should be interesting, since it is an all-boys prep school, and a large portion of my body of work is R-rated.

Woolliscroft · Oct 6, 2007

My pictures are mostly archaeological records: a mix of aerial shots and records of excavated features, artefact finds and the like. They are willed to heritage archives.

David.

ann · Oct 6, 2007

my nephrew has asked for my negatives, heaven only knows why.

gr82bart · Oct 6, 2007

I guess mine are going to the landfill. Dunno really.

Regards, Art.

Ian Leake · Oct 6, 2007

At the end of the day it's the prints which are important to me, and if I'm not here to use the negatives to make prints then I don't really care what happens to them. So assuming I haven't somehow transmogrified into someone famous (a pretty safe bet), then I expect my negatives will end up in the trash along with all my other junk. However I hope that some of my prints will continue to be cherished long after I'm gone.

SuzanneR · Oct 6, 2007

I plan to make a boxed portfolio of prints to give to my children when they finish college. The rest... it will be up to them what to chuck and what to keep. I think it is important that one thinks about it, and writes down a few wishes for your work. It will make things easier for those left to sort through it.

Like Ian, though, I hope my prints are appreciated after I'm gone.

Akki14 · Oct 6, 2007

Probably going in the bin because I'm not famous. Maybe I'll start hiding a few in loftspaces so when everyone does loft conversions on every single rooftop in this area (probably going to happen sooner rather than later), someone will find some because those are the best jewels out there.

Ian Leake · Oct 6, 2007

Akki14 said:
Probably going in the bin because I'm not famous. Maybe I'll start hiding a few in loftspaces so when everyone does loft conversions on every single rooftop in this area (probably going to happen sooner rather than later), someone will find some because those are the best jewels out there.

Now there's an interesting idea - shades of "Amelie" perhaps.

MurrayMinchin · Oct 6, 2007

My wife calls me her "long term, high risk investment", so she and our daughter might reap the mountains of cash that'll start rolling in as soon as I die.

Realistically, I'll make them available to the scientific community. There's quite a few old growth forest scenes I've taken that are now clear-cuts, and there may be interest in how plant species diversity changes with 'managed forests'. They could also be used to catalogue what species were here on the north coast of BC during my time, and what if any new plant species move in as climate changes.

Murray

Jim Noel · Oct 6, 2007

I don't worry about it. Those members of my family who want copies of images will get them and do whatever they like with the rest. If I am still able to contact models I have photographed, I will offer them prints and all negatives of them.

DannL · Oct 6, 2007

All my prints are made from recyclable materials. I hope?

Snapshot · Oct 6, 2007

I'm going to be buried with them.

Renato Tonelli · Oct 6, 2007

My photographs/negatives of Blues and Jazz musicians to a research archive in Mississippi I've already donated prints to; photos of northern Tuscany to a library in that area as many of the photos are evidence of a disappearing culture; family/relatives photos to my children and my "fine art" photographs to... hum... the trash bin.

bjorke · Oct 6, 2007

Google has copies of all the ones that have shown up on the web. I doubt they will VANISH, just be buried under the other 21st-century piles that archeologists will find more interesting, like Souri Cruise snaps.

I dunno, what will happen to all the things that I've SAID, after I'm not available to say them?

Once the library burns down, it's gone.

The reason moments are so beautiful is also why they pass.

Shmoo · Oct 6, 2007

I have visions of some kindly individual going through a box of my framed photographs, selecting some, purchasing them, taking them home, then promptly popping out my pictures and replacing them with images of their child/dog/graduating student...did I mention that the box if images will probably be at the Salvation Army store?

Gatsby1923 · Oct 6, 2007

I have thought of this. If I live long enough that my prints have some documentary value I plan on willing them to my local library’s history collection. At least the ones that are of buildings that will not exist. Other than that who knows. I hope someone will want them. If not may the all be burned. That would be a lot more dramatic than the trash. Just my two cents.

Ole · Oct 7, 2007

kombizz said:
Have you ever have plan that what are you going to do with your images AFTER you die?

AFTER I die, I'm not going to do anything at all - except decomposing slowly.

But no, I have no plans for what is to be done with my images after I die. It doesn't really matter to me by that time...

papagene · Oct 7, 2007

I'm gonna have my photos dry mounted to the casket and lowered into the ground with me. :rolleyes:

gene

k_jupiter · Oct 7, 2007

Well, since I am gonna be cremated, why not? Nobody gives a damn about my work anyway.

Oh, and just pour whatever developer you find in the studio over the pyre.

tim in san jose

eddym · Oct 7, 2007

kombizz said:
Have you ever have plan that what are you going to do with your images AFTER you die?

I'm gonna die...?
Oh shit.
How long do I have?

k_jupiter · Oct 7, 2007

eddym said:
I'm gonna die...?
Oh shit.
How long do I have?

Don't get depressed but today is the first day closer to the end of your life.

tim in san jose

pgomena · Oct 8, 2007

I work for a historical society that has an archive of more than 2 million photographs of all descriptions ranging in age from daguerrotypes and wet-plate to modern.

Some of the most important images were made by unknown photographers recording everyday things. (There's also a lot of crap.) What we consider useless images today are the historic record of tomorrow. A historic library, museum or other public archive might be very happy to have your "useless" images.

Think long and hard before you light that pile. And for heaven's sake, annotate and edit your collection before you donate it. The archivists of the future will thank you.

Myself, I will probably donate my stuff to some such institution. I doubt my kids will want my stuff. If they want to see it, they can visit the institution and rummage through it there. My life's visual work will slowly fade away on a back shelf in a dark room somewhere. Hopefully it will be of some interest or use to someone.

Peter Gomena

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