PHOTOGRAPHS IN A SHOEBOX PODCAST PAST EPISODES
The Podcast Archive
While I’m no longer recording new episodes, the archive remains available for anyone who wants encouragement to treasure their family photographs.
This podcast was created to remind you that the photos you’re taking today – even the everyday phone snapshots – will matter deeply to the next generation.
Because I’ve lived this from every angle:
As a daughter, discovering old family photographs with no idea who most of the people are (I can only guess now, and that breaks my heart a little).
As a mother, watching my teen daughter pour over her baby photos, asking questions, making connections, building her sense of who she is.
As a family photographer for nearly 20 years at my studio in Harlow, Essex, hearing countless stories about the photographs that shaped people’s childhoods – or the ones they wish existed.
What you’ll find in these episodes:
Conversations about why photographs matter, how to preserve what you have, and stories from guests about the images they treasure most.
It’s about happy memories, your legacy, and building your children’s sense of belonging (studies even show that having family photos around the house boosts children’s self-esteem).
The podcast is no longer active, but the episodes below are still here if you’d like to listen.
Episode 019 December Photo Challenge
Listen Here: December Photo Challenge As Christmas approaches, I share a few ideas of photographs to take whilst enjoying the festivities during December, to prompt you, and avoid the "I wish I'd taken a photo of that!" moments. So the December Photo challenge is to capture a photo a day during December that tells your Christmas countdown story. It is only 31 sleeps …. Transcription of...
Episode 018 Christmas Traditions
Listen Here: UK Christmas Traditions for family photos In today’s episode, I am pondering different Christmas Traditions that we have in the UK around family photos, both as gifts and the must-take photos I have for my family Christmas Day photos each year. It’s a relatively short list 🙂 I’d be interested to hear your thoughts too, you can comment under this episode’s social media post...
Episode 017 Is it Tacky to Display Family Photos?
Listen Here: Is it tacky to display family photos at home? In my portrait studio, I rarely meet people who would answer yes to that question, as they wouldn’t desire a portrait session in the first place. However chatting to friends & family I do occasionally encounter this, and the answer is a firm no, for a variety of reasons. Episode Transcription of Is it Tacky to Display Family...
Episode 016 How to Organise Family Photos
Listen here to How to Organise Family Photos: How to Organise Family Photos 4 simple ideas to help you organise your family photos. Make a start with just one, and hopefully, by the time your children are 18, you can easily create a photo wall to celebrate their birthday, with a collection of photos: some will be funny, others serious, perhaps some will be messy but all will be beautiful...
Episode 015 The Story Behind the Photograph with Eden Gruger
Listen to The Story Behind the Photograph with Eden Gruger here: As a photographer, I love hearing the story behind a photograph, and in this episode, I am joined by author Eden Gruger chatting about a photograph of her father taken when he was a young boy after he'd converted his pedal bike into a plane. As you do! Eden is an author, speaker, writer, and publishing mentor, she lives just...
Episode 014 The Greatest Legacy
Listen Here to The Greatest legacy .... The Greatest Legacy We Can Leave Our Children is Happy Memories I came across this quote by Og Mandino an American author whilst I was researching ideas for the podcast. It really resonated with me, and the longer version of this quote too. So please do listen to the podcast, and let me know what you'd like to be remembered for? And if we could time...
What should you do with old printed photographs? (Podcast episode 013)
How do you start sorting old printed photographs? Start with two piles: one to keep, and one to let go. Most of us have a shoebox of prints from the days of paper envelopes from the lab, looked at once and then put away. What are the steps to declutter old photographs? Get them all out and make two piles: keep, and let go. Let go of the blurry ones, the duplicates, any where you can't place who...
Episode 012 Remembering the little things too
Listen Here: Remembering The Little Things Too In this episode, I talk about remembering what your child was into at different ages, as it's important to weave them into some photos of that chapter of childhood. Podcast Episode Transcription: Remembering the Little Things Too Sue: (00:03)Hello, and welcome to the Photographs in a Shoebox Podcast with Sue Kennedy. This podcast is all about...
Episode 011 The Story Behind the Photograph with Fiona Kearns
Listen Here: The Story Behind the Photograph with Fiona Kearns As a photographer, I love hearing the story behind a photograph, and in this episode, I am joined by Fiona Kearns a Business Psychologist speaking about a photograph taken at her Deb Ball, and why this photograph is particularly special to her. I have included a copy of the photograph in the show notes. The Photograph Fiona Kearns at...
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