Pictures tell stories
Beside the recording of oral histories, painstakingly resourced personal photos and images of documents and artefacts add vivid life to Criena’s books.
The images in her recent books have been extensively enhanced and restored with state-of-the-art technology, revealing obscure details, bringing individual experiences to life, and throwing a spotlight on lost faces.
From Dr Fitzgerald to Stylus Design:
‘…The book was produced beautifully, colourful and interesting while the work done to improve the imagery and photographs inspiring. My readers saw images of themselves they had never been able to recognise…’
These photographs, often quite small, have been clipped to battered documents, squeezed into wallets and purses, carried into workplaces like mines, or travelled with their owners half way around the world and back again – only to be treasured as memories of the past. Taken with very simple cameras, they may be bent, wrinkled and scratched.
We use our experience as photographers and some very clever software to restore a recognisable scene or find a face that is up to publishing standards.
Without realising it, the people who kept these innocent records of events and times were also recording history for future generations.
– Stylus Design
