A few weeks ago I found myself in my parents' attic, flipping through photo albums from the 1990s. The faded prints of family vacations, birthdays and everyday moments sparked an unexpected realization: these tangible images had already outlasted many digital shots I've taken in the past decade.
The previous weekend, I'd tried to locate photos from my first DSLR; shots from a 2009 road trip around Romania. After hours of searching through external hard drives, cloud accounts and forgotten folders, I found only a handful; the rest had vanished into the digital ether.
