Website offers new home to Vintage Photographs

Feb. 11, 2014 - PRLog -- Two Brisbane-based (Australia) artists have collaborated on the rescue, revival and release to the public of a series of precious vintage photographs via the launch of their new website.

echothatemotion.com is, for founders Jill Barker and Lisa Behan, the culmination of over 20 years of film negative collecting and the realisation of a shared dream to re-purpose the highly emotive, and sometimes personal imagery, for a broader audience.

According to Lisa, most of the images on the site started out as black and white negatives from Japan and Australia. Many were purchased on eBay, some were photographs taken by the artists directly and some of the original negatives were found forgotten in junk shops or simply unwanted amongst bric-a-brac.

“In addition to rescuing and storing the originals, we’ve now cleaned, digitised, spotted, coloured and altered the images. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot,” said Jill.

“Spotting out decades worth of stuck-on dust, fingerprints and other marks takes a lot of time and relative patience. On occasions where the visible marks of age added to the interest of the image, we simply left it there.”

“I have always inadvertently used images as motivational devices. In moments when I needed reassurance, often when feeling apprehensive around a new task, an unrelated but positive image might flash into my mind. I realised my brain was doing a kind of visual ‘I think I can’ and that’s ideally what we want these images to do for others,” said Jill.

“We want people to use these re-worked images as their very own emotional sparks, like music for your eyes. Whether it is for inspiration, communication, motivation, as a mini meditation or perhaps as a means to stimulate deeper emotional intelligence,” Lisa said.

All images are available for viewing at www.echothatemotion.com and can be downloaded for ongoing digital usage. Download price for each image is $6.

The duo plan to add more images to the site over time and, whilst not entirely certain of the evolutionary process of their shared venture, they are further inspired by the prospect of their old treasures providing positive connections to a whole new audience.