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Our life stories are vulnerable to external archives

Faded Pictures Our life stories are vulnerable to external archives Kristen Martin November 15, 2017 share Image: From the series Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten by Diane Meyer . Hand sewn archival ink jet print, 2013. Courtesy the artist. In 2003, when I was 14 years old, I received my first digital camera as a Christmas gift. Before that, a late-1990s model Polaroid had offered the nearest thing to instant gratification. Polaroids still took several minutes to fully develop, and film was expensive. If I wanted to take a lot of pictures on, say, the last day of school, I would op

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