For 400 years, families have looked for better ways to remember.
- 1600s

Portraits for the few
Wealthy and royal families hired painters to record who they were. One portrait could take weeks.
Van Dyck, The Five Eldest Children of Charles I, 1637. Public domain. - Late 1800s

Family portrait, 1890s The camera comes home
Black-and-white cameras came to market. Ordinary families could finally have their photograph taken.
State Library of Queensland. Public domain. - 1900s

Color, then digital
Color film, then digital cameras, put a camera in nearly every home. Shoeboxes of prints became folders of files.
Kevin Dooley, Halloween 1964, CC BY 2.0. - TodayRecents14,382 photos




















Social media
A camera in every pocket. Every moment can be posted, shared and seen in seconds.
Is social media helping us be more social?
We have more photos than any generation before us. But a memory is more than a picture: it's who was there, what they said, and why it mattered. With unlimited access, are we building more memories, or making them harder to keep?
Twenty years from now, what will your child actually be able to find?
