The Retroscans series is my restoration of other people’s slides from the 1940s to the 1970s.

I’ve been buying up boxes old slides by the thousands that show up in various estate sales and auctions. After sorting them, cleaning them, and scanning them, I catalog everything into an organized Lightroom catalog with dates, locations, and keyword tags. From here, I’m beginning to find near collisions of location and time where two unrelated photographers have crossed paths with their 35mm cameras snapping away. Most of what I’m saving spans the 1940s through the 1970s. I’m trying to focus on San Francisco but the slides I come across span just about every country in the world.

As things come together, I will share some of these never-before-published gems with the world, rather than let them quietly find their way to the landfill.