Photos That Are Too Hard To Keep

I couldn't stop looking at this. Every image. The project, the idea, the humanity of it captivated me. I searched the images, spoke the narratives in my head, made the judgments and jumped to conclusions, felt the butterflies and the pains.

 http://toohardtokeep.blogspot.com

http://www.jasonlazarus.com/#/work:19:t.h.t.k./media:527:











From NPR: 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/11/09/131188172/snapshots
The snapshot might not be the most beautiful of images, but that doesn't mean it can't be art. Maybe not on its own merits, but with context, more conceptually, it can teach us something about how we create our life stories. Jason Lazarus, a photographer and instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago, is interested in the way people organize their experiences, and in the personal archive of images we create. In a way, Lazarus brings photos back from the dead.
More specifically, Lazarus is interested in images with intensely personal meaning to their owners — even if he doesn’t know what that meaning is. That’s why he started his project, "Too Hard To Keep," in which he solicits emotionally charged photographs that people might otherwise destroy.