Blog - Flickr Foundation

Meet Elizabeth Goodspeed, Casual Archivist

"Entire categories of imagery or creators can disappear simply because no one thought they mattered in the moment. That’s the tension between saving and hoarding."

Looking for Daybooks in the Archives

Our research lead Fattori McKenna sifted through Flickr Commons for daybooks throughout history to consider what can be gained by keeping a Flickr Foundation daybook.

The Forgetful Web: A Case for Reflective Archiving

Digital media theorist, Jill Blackmore Evans, sets up the argument against 'restorative nostalgia' and towards a more enlivened mode of web archiving

Visualizing Reproductive Care Through Archives and Collective Storytelling

Flickr Foundation Spring Research Fellows, Molly Sherman & Emily Fitzgerald, share the second instalment of their research project, investigating image archives of reproductive care on Flickr.

Developing a New Research Method, Part 3: Archivevoice in Practice

Meet the researchers Prakash ran his first Archivevoice workshop with, and their fantastic projects.

A Prehistory of the Digital Daybook

An introduction to the rituals of record-keeping that have influenced our daybook project

Announcing Digital Daybook

How do we set up with a legible resilient archive of ourselves?

Read on!

Welcoming our first 2025 Research Fellows

Emily Fitzgerald & Molly Sherman are joining us as our first research fellow pair to continue development of their Reproductive Reproductions project.

Developing a New Research Method, Part 2: Introduction to Archivevoice

Follow Prakash Krishnan's progress, with guidance on archival basics, and this new methodology.

Developing a New Research Method, Part 1

Where research fellow, Prakash Krishnan, positions archival images as a medium for creative interpretation.

Find out how

Result of prompting Midjourney with “Stereograms, 1900” in June 2024.

The Ghost Stays in the Picture, Part 3: The Power of the Image

The final installment from Eryk Salvaggio as part of his fellowship researching generated imagery and Flickr.

The Ghost Stays in the Picture, Part 2: Data Casts Shadows

Second of three installments from Eryk Salvaggio as part of his research on generated imagery and Flickr.

On the way to 100 years of Flickr

A report on archival strategies by Ashley Kelleher Skjøtt.

Read the report

Welcome, Eryk!

AI researcher and new media artist, Eryk Salvaggio joins as our first research fellow for 2024.

Meet Eryk

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