Vol. 01 · The Studio · No. 1

The photograph your mother
kept by hand again.

We restore the photographs your family kept — the wedding portrait from the attic, the one in the box on the mantel, the one you found after the funeral. A person reviews every image before it leaves the studio. We deliver the digital files, and, if you'd like, the framed piece ready to hand to her.

Begin an order From $59 per photograph
Before1948
AfterBy hand
Restoration in progress · Order 0001 · Catherine, 1948

We don't fix what you didn't ask us to fix. The scar on his cheek, the crease your father made, the look your mother kept — those stay.

— The whole studio in one rule

What we don't touch.

A non-exhaustive list

A small studio.
Three weeks at most.

You mail us the originals, or email scans. We restore each photograph by hand. A person — not just the engine — reviews every image. You see a digital proof before anything ships. We send the originals back, safely, with the prints and the box.

01

Send us the photographs

Mail the originals or email scans. Tell us about the people in them — whose mother, whose grandfather, what we should know.

Same day
We write back with a plan
02

We restore, by hand

The heavy lift is digital. The decisions — what to fix, what to keep — are made by a person who has read your intake note.

5–10 days
Single image, 3–5 days
03

You preview the proof

A digital proof of each photograph for your approval. No prints, no framing, no shipping until you've said yes.

Your pace
One round of edits included
04

We deliver, ready to give

Digital files to your inbox. Framed centerpiece, prints, and originals returned in a presentation box. The slideshow on a USB if you ordered one.

By next Friday
Sooner for funerals
Why a person

AI is fast. A person knows which details matter.

Restoration tools can't tell the difference between a scratch on the negative and a scar on your grandfather's cheek. They'll smooth both away. We use the tools where they help, and a person stops the work anywhere identity is on the line.

How we work
A typical Memorial Bundle

For the photograph you'll put on the easel.

Photographs restored12
Framed centerpiece11×14, walnut
Slideshow videoincluded
Presentation box + USBincluded
From$599
Begin an order — we'll write back the same day

A single photograph,
a place to begin.

Begin an order