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Replay the Past

Family photographs, brought back.

Each pair below starts as a phone photo of an old print. The restoration is what Replay the Past returned, shown as it came back, with no retouching afterwards. Drag across a photo to compare.

01 / Before and after

My own family’s prints.

Before restoration: My father’s second cousin
After restoration: My father’s second cousin
Fig. 01 / My father’s second cousin
Before restoration: My father
After restoration: My father
Fig. 02 / My father
Before restoration: Two great-grandmothers, standing, with their parents
After restoration: Two great-grandmothers, standing, with their parents
Fig. 03 / Two great-grandmothers, standing, with their parents
Before restoration: My mother’s uncle and his wife
After restoration: My mother’s uncle and his wife
Fig. 04 / My mother’s uncle and his wife
Before restoration: The parents of my mother’s uncle
After restoration: The parents of my mother’s uncle
Fig. 05 / The parents of my mother’s uncle
Before restoration: My grandmother’s cousin and his wife
After restoration: My grandmother’s cousin and his wife
Fig. 06 / My grandmother’s cousin and his wife
Before restoration: My great-great-grandmother’s sister with her children
After restoration: My great-great-grandmother’s sister with her children
Fig. 07 / My great-great-grandmother’s sister with her children
Before restoration: My grandmother’s cousin
After restoration: My grandmother’s cousin
Fig. 08 / My grandmother’s cousin
Before restoration: My father
After restoration: My father
Fig. 09 / My father
Before restoration: My father, the small child in the middle, with the whole family
After restoration: My father, the small child in the middle, with the whole family
Fig. 10 / My father, the small child in the middle, with the whole family

02 / About these photos

Published with permission.

Everyone in these photographs has died. They are published by their family, with a signed permission record for each photo.

Replay the Past is in development and not yet open to the public. If you have prints of your own you would like brought back, get in touch.

06 / Contact

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The more specific the problem, the better the first reply: what the system should do, what it does now, what was tried, and the deadline.