One hour with Jo to work out exactly what to do with your photos, in what order, so you can finally get through them.
You have years of family photos. Thousands, probably, spread across old phones, hard drives and cloud accounts nobody has properly opened in a long time. You know they matter. You keep meaning to sort them, maybe make a book or a proper archive out of them. But every time you sit down to start, the size of the job stops you before you get anywhere, and it always seems to get bigger the more you touch it.
This session is designed to help you work out the right way through before you start sorting.
We work through your specific situation together. I bring more than a decade of professional experience and the pattern recognition that comes from personally curating around 500,000 family photographs into hundreds of finished family stories.
By the end of the hour, you'll have a clear, realistic plan for getting from where you are now to something finished, so you can do the work yourself knowing you're starting in the right place.
- You have years of family photos and genuinely don't know where to start
- You've tried sorting before and it stalled, or grew the more you touched it
- You want to make a book, an archive or a proper collection but can't see the route from here to there
- You'd rather do the work yourself, but want someone experienced to tell you the smartest way in
Depending on what you bring, this could include:
- Where to actually start, and what to leave until later
- How to break a huge job into stages that feel manageable
- What's worth keeping and how to make that call more quickly
- Where you're likely to be duplicating effort without realising it
- How I approach choosing photographs, and what makes one stronger than another
- How to photograph family life going forward, so you have better material to work with
- A clear order of operations for your photos
- Answers to the decisions that have been holding you up
- A written action plan after the session, so nothing gets lost
- A process you can follow on your own time
- Confidence that you know what to do next, and why
I've been a professional photographer for more than a decade, including a Scottish Portrait Awards win in 2019 and commissions for The Sunday Times.
The more relevant experience is this: through 20 Photos I've personally curated around 500,000 family photographs into hundreds of finished family stories. That's a lot of decisions about what matters and what doesn't, made over and over across hundreds of different families.
This session puts that judgement to work on your photos, even when I'm not the one doing the sorting.
Book your hour, then answer a short set of questions beforehand: what you have, what you want to end up with, what you've already tried and where you're stuck.
The more context you give me, the more specific your plan will be.