About: Save Your Slides

Hello, I'm Martin, and this website is the home of Save Your Slides, a new project dedicated to a singular mission: to combat a quiet tragedy—the wholesale loss of our visual history.

Everyday thousands of irreplaceable 35mm slide collections are ending up in the rubbish without ever being digitized. Every slide collection represents an irreplaceable time capsule, and every box that hits the landfill is a chapter lost forever. These memories are lost forever.

I launched Save Your Slides because of this loss, and created this website because so many people wanted to follow the mission and track the project's progress! For now, the priority is clear: to intercept these collections and stop them from going to the tip. This project is evolving as we go, and goal is to display a selection of the rescued slides right here on this site.

The Three-Stage Plan

1. Rescue and Retention: Our most urgent goal is to stop slides from going to landfill. Every collection we intercept, regardless of size or subject, successfully saves a piece of history.

2. Digital Preservation: Our long-term goal is to digitize all collected slides. This process preserves the images, making them safe from the degradation of the physical slide format and future-proofing them for access.

3. Maybe One Day Tabletop Book: After looking through countless slides, we believe there is a fantastic opportunity for a tabletop book. The ultimate outcome is to curate the most compelling images to produce a tabletop book, creating a unique window into the forgotten world of the 35mm slides.

By donating your unwanted 35mm slides, you are directly helping us save irreplaceable memories and fulfill this three-stage mission.