A photographers legacy is in the photographs that s/he takes, and now we’re almost all digital, how do you go about ensuring that your legacy isn’t lost to your descendants?
Your work is valuable whether you’re alive or dead – but no doubt you’ve protected your images from unauthorised access. What do you do about ensuring that access passwords aren’t lost with your demise? Without them, your work is probably going to be lost for good – especially that work which has not yet been published.
By: boguing - 30th November 2011 at 21:50
Foillowing the sad news about RobAnt, I’d like to say that family should be able to see where we ‘were’ on the web.
A relatively new example of ephemera.
I don’t bother password protecting my computers anymore, because I know that my kids and friends all know how to solve that in minutes.
Website (forum) passwords could be retrieved by using the reminder function and my email address. Kids know that, but as I speak, I have written it down in ‘the obvious place’.
Some of the stuff I’ve written would let the kids know that, just occasionally, I do know what I’m talking about. And what really interested me.
So, to be trite, if Rob’s original post lets just one family read what one of us has joined in with, they will have a far better idea of what made us tick.
Heart surgery on the 12th of December… Must get the Air Compass Type 5/17 finished. Might pay for the funeral…
By: EHVB - 28th November 2005 at 16:32
It is arranged in my will that all my photographic work will go to our national aviation museum.
By: Manonthefence - 28th November 2005 at 16:10
My Will clearly states that my photographic collection is to be destroyed after my death. Saves her the trouble of trying to get rid of them.
By: Canpark - 28th November 2005 at 14:28
Before I die I will go back to Vietnam and snap as many pictures of VPAF aircraft as possible, to spread it all over the net.
By: ruby0209 - 28th November 2005 at 14:14
i think i will go there
if i will die soon, i will go to beijing which is a very nice place to die.
see http://www.drivehq.com/file/ShowFolder.aspx?isGallery=true&share=true&shareID=0&parentID=37267&refID=27496 :diablo:
By: ollieholmes - 10th November 2005 at 23:12
I dont password protect my images. I have them all backed up on an external hard drive. What people choose to do with them after i die is up to them, but as long as they recognise me as having taken them. The thing with digital is we just dont know how long the data will last before it becomes corrupt or technology moves on so far they are to old to be read.
By: kev35 - 10th November 2005 at 13:44
Seeing as I’m not very good, it won’t be an issue regarding publication. And as for passwords I personally don’t see the need for them to ‘protect’ my photographs. As for what happens when I’m dead I can’t really say it concerns me.
Regards,
kev35
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November 10, 2005 at 12:47 pm