Printing your Photographs? Why bother?

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”

Although Wordsworth was talking about poetry when he said “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”, I think this is such a great way to think about photographs. If you were to be cast away on a desert island, and had to choose a few possessions you could take with you, what would you choose? I bet many of us would choose our photo collection – and it probably wouldn’t be our transient digital collection from Facebook or iPhone but those old photos from the shoebox in the attic or under the stairs.  Our connection to our roots, to the people we love and to the places, art and history that make up who we are, is through images and the stories they bring with them; those little bits of paper and ink are so much more than the sum of their parts.