Finding Memories in Japan

CNN VIDEO: FINDING MEMORIES IN JAPAN
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/04/10/hancocks.japan.finding.memories.cnn.html

A Photo Album Once Cherished Amid the Tsunami Ruins in Otsuchi, Japan

As photographers who make our living by perserving the memories of families, it never hurts to remind ourselves that what we do truly matters. This is made even more poingant by the tragedy being played out in Japan. 

A Makeshift Shelter for Homeless Photographs in Otsuchi, Japan   

Crews in Japan are so mindful of the specialness of family photographs that they are taking extra precautions to carefully set aside the thousands of photographs they find so that theses treasures might be claimed by the families who've lost them. 

A "Gallery" Displaying Found Photographs 

As you watch this short CNN video, it might do us all some good to reflect upon the importance of family photographs and the vital role we play creating one of the single most treasured possessions in of all humanity.

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