About: Save Your Slides

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

Every day, thousands of irreplaceable 35mm slide and B&W negative collections end up in the rubbish. Each box is a time capsule—a family’s legacy, a forgotten landscape, or a moment in time that will never be seen again. When these boxes hit the landfill, a chapter of our history is lost forever.

I launched this project to intercept these collections and ensure these memories aren't just saved but brought back to life.

The Mission: Saving Australia’s Analog History

The biggest hurdle for most families is what to do with thousands of old slides when they no longer have the space or the means to keep them. My mission is simple: I exist to stop slides from going to the dump.

I believe every 35mm slide is a piece of history worth saving. I hope to digitize all slides I receive to preserve them for the future, ensuring these moments are not lost forever in a landfill.

Giving History a New Life

Once rescued, these collections are archived to create a digital record that lives on long after the physical film has faded. While I scan everything to ensure it is preserved, I also look for those special images that capture a unique window into our past.

If you enjoy seeing these recovered pieces of history, feel free to share our project on social media to help us find "lost" collections before they are cleared out and forgotten.

Our Three-Stage Plan

  1. Rescue and Retention: Our urgent goal is to stop slides from going to landfill. We accept slide donations from anywhere in Australia by post. If you have a collection you no longer want, we ensure it stays out of the skip.

  2. Digital Preservation: We scan the donated collections using professional equipment. This future-proofs the images, making them safe from physical degradation and ready to be archived for generations.

  3. The Tabletop Book: The ultimate outcome is to curate the most compelling images from the archive to produce a tabletop book—a tribute to the forgotten world of the 35mm slide.

How You Can Help

  • Donate your slides: If you have a collection, you no longer want, donate it to the project. We will ensure it is preserved in our archive rather than the landfill. [Donate Slides Page]

  • Spread the word: Share our mission on social media! Every share helps us reach a family who might be moments away from throwing away a piece of history.

  • Support the Mission: You can also support the work through a direct donation on our [Support Page] to help cover the costs of shipping and digital storage.