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To piece together an impression of a civilization that has vanished, archaeologists collect artifacts in the
form of bones, pottery or tools. Our process is just the opposite. We create impressions -- with photography and words -- that can be witness to an existing time, place or people. Using both
mediums, we attempt to give historical permanence to threatened societies and ways of life.
Photography is a technology well-suited to creating artifacts that endure the test of time. As we cross the threshold into a new millennium, the format and venue for
photographic documentation has expanded from the traditional print to digital expression. State-of-the-art technology has the capability of extending the life of a photographic image longer than ever thought
possible. The photographs themselves can be printed by a variety of methods -- ranging from the traditional darkroom to modern photographic-quality printers.
Our approach is not unique or new. Neither are we the first documentarians to focus on vanishing ways of life. There have been many before us whose work survives to
enlighten and inform long after cultures have changed irreversibly or disappeared entirely. But, as is the desire of many of the subjects we document, we work with the hope that we will leave behind a legacy
for others to appreciate. We call our work visual artifact gathering, our organization The Image Expedition.
Linda Rice Lorenzetti Daniel Lorenzetti
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