Lost & Found: Salvaging Snapshots in Japan - The New Yorker

This month marks the one-year anniversary of last year’s disasters in Japan...One of the most powerful visual representations of this recovery, though, came not from professional photographers but from ordinary citizens. The Lost & Found Project is an exhibition that grew out of the Salvage Memory Project, a volunteer effort from across the country which has recovered some three quarters of a million photographs that had been lost in the town of Yamamoto during the earthquake and tsunami.