Photo Archiving Services & Pricing

An important note on package pricing and economic accessibility

It is important to me as a historian of photography to help any individual safeguard their family photo archive, especially those of historically underrepresented or misrepresented people. The visibility and continuity of these stories is important. The prices listed below enable me to provide photo archiving services to low-income or other disadvantaged individuals. Please contact me if you would like to discuss pro-bono and reduced fee schedules.

Get it Done—Archive all of your media memories

This service is for anyone who wants to create and preserve their entire multi-generational family archive, regardless of quantity or media type. All of the following are included:
  • Removing photos from harmful storage situations like adhesive-page albums
  • Scanning the photos and doing basic digital image editing
  • Returning the photos in appropriate archival storage
  • Removing slides from bulky carousels
  • Scanning slides and doing basic digital image editing
  • Returning slides in space-saving archival storate
  • Organizing your digital photos from phones, tablets, external drives or cards, existing cloud storage (iPhoto, Google Photos, Dropbox, etc), or other social media or photo-sharing apps
  • Removing duplicates
  • Organizing into a file structure with basic identifying information and searchability
  • Digitizing all of your video media such as 8mm film, VHS, VHS-C, MiniDV, DVD, or any others
  • Digitize all of your audio media such as audio reels or cassette tapes (non-copyright protected)
  • Anything flat can be scanned including newspapers, journals, scrapbooks, entire pages of vintage albums, memorabilia, and items produced using historic photo processes like daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and cabinet cards
  • Free digital photos hosting on my private photo storage site photoxo.gallery
  • Special client-only pricing on maintaining your digital photo archive going forward so you can keep all of your new digital photos organized seamlessly
  • Special client-only pricing on creating heirloom photo books, digital slideshows, repair of damaged photos, or printing and framing

Digitize & Preserve

Most of my clients request one of the following services. For simplicity, each of these services are priced at the same flat-rate and are not limited by quantity. Gather all of your prints, or all of your slides, or let me help you get all of your digital photos organized.

Digitize Your Prints

The majority of our family photos are in albums or loose in boxes. Preserving these memories is simple and affordable.

 

  • Removing photos from harmful storage situations like adhesive-page albums
  • Scanning the photos and doing basic digital image editing
  • Returning the photos in appropriate archival storage
  • Free digital photo hosting on my private photo storage site photoxo.gallery

Digitize Your Slides

You may have decades of family memories in slide carousels. This service includes:

 

  • Removing slides from bulky carousels
  • Scanning slides and doing basic digital image editing
  • Returning slides in appropriate space-saving archival storage
  • Free digital photo hosting on my private photo storage site photoxo.gallery

Digitize Your Videos

You may have decades of family video memories. This service includes: 

 

  • Digitizing 8mm films
  • Digitizing VHS tapes
  • Digitizing DVDs, or other more recent video formats
  • Free digital video hosting on my private photo storage site photoxo.gallery

Organize Your Digital Photos

Organizing your digital photos from phones, tablets external drives or cards, existing cloud storage (iPhoto, Google Photos, Dropbox, etc), or other social media or photo-sharing apps includes: 

 

  • Retrieval of digital files from any and all sources you identify
  • Removing duplicates
  • Organizing into a file structure with basic identifying information and searchability
  • Free digital photo hosting on my private photo storage site photoxo.gallery

$3,247

for any one of the above listed service packages

Do it Yourself

Disaster to Done self-paced online course

Disaster to Done is an online course designed to walk you step-by-step through the processes I follow to create physical and digital archives.

 

  • Organize your printed photos
  • Move them from harmful albums to recommended archival storage
  • Create a backup of your photos to safeguard them from disaster
  • Find new ways to bring them into your life on a daily basis
  • Create peace of mind that your family’s photo memories and stories are safe

Lifetime access to instruction & bonuses

only $297

Other Services

These are also ways to integrate your newly-digitized heirloom photos into your life in a meaningful way, or to make gifts that they’ll treasure forever. Tell me what you’d like to end up with and we’ll work together on a quote.

Custom photo books

From $500

Digital photo slideshow

From $550

From $120

Custom printing & framing

From $450

For Institutions & Organizations

The services listed on this page are for individual/family archiving work, however I am also available to create image and document archives for small organizational clients. Contact me to discuss the needs and scope of your project.

See examples below

And beyond

If you’ve read About Me, you’ll see that I have a range of skills beyond creating physical and digital photo archives including curating photography exhibitions, guest lecturing on any number of topics from the History of Photography to proper care for your family photos or teaching a course or workshop at your university or museum.

Something else? Let’s chat.