Too Hard to Keep

Too Hard to Keep is an archive founded and maintained by photographer Jason Lazarus. He says, "I have started an archive of photographs deemed 'too hard to keep.' Submissions may include photos of friends, family, pets, places, objects too hard to view again. The reason you can't live with the photo or photo album I do not need to know... I am creating a repository for these images so that they may exist without being destroyed."

See more of the archive (including submission guidelines) here and Jason's personal website here

[all anonymous, from Too Hard to Keep, 2010]

archive • custom photo rugs

these are rugs made from photographs. more examples here.

[all from custom photo rugs]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

archive • reanimation library

a lot of interesting material at the reanimation library. more information here.

[all from reanimation library]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

archive • gandhiserve online archive

these images of gandhi (and his "worldly possessions") are from a large archive. see more here.

[all from gandhiserve online image archive.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

archive • california city

trevor shimizu told me about this archive, one of the best sites dedicated to a city I have seen. more here (be sure to look at the police reports).

[all from california city.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

archive • mosaicism

 

  

  

  

A project in Olivian Cha's series of shows at the Los Angeles Public library, this one is by Daniel Ingroff in which he "presents "mosaicism.org", a work inspired by photographs and paraphernalia taken from the Art department’s “picture files” - a unique collection of newspapers, magazine clippings and ephemera collected by librarians prior to the advent of the Internet." See more here.

[all from mosaicism.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

archive • belfast exposed

as they describe it, "belfast exposed photography has compiled an archive of half a million images since 1983. the archive is a vernacular document, a record of a turbulent historical period in the city's history, produced from the perspectives of its principal actors, the communities themselves. It is not a representative view of the city as whole but an arbitrary gathering of images and views, of and from specific parts of belfast." these are from the category "demonstrations". more here.

[all from belfast exposed.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

archive • inmate population information list

this is a site run by the florida department of corrections that "....contains public record information on felony offenders sentenced to the department of corrections." the database has their names as well as photographs, release date, tattoos, offenses, etc. see more here.

[all from inmate population information list.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

archive • fishing cat

these are from a group of pictures of what it seems is a "water cat". see more here.

[all from diesel.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph

archive • avellinesi

this is a wide-ranging, historical photo archive from avellino, italy. see more here.

[all from avellinesi .]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph