A volunteer sees an opportunity to help out a community hit by a tsunami by using her photo retouching skills.
While volunteering doing disaster response work in Japan, Becci Manson came across a lot of personal photos that had been swept away by a tsunami into drains and gutters.
“I realized that these photos were such a huge part of the personal loss these people had felt. As they had run from the wave and for their lives, absolutely everything they had, everything had to be left behind.”
Becci ended up reaching out to all of the photo retouchers she knew. The photos were scanned and sent to these retouchers across the world. They would then digitally fix the photos, send them back where they would be printed and handed to the families.
These photos are memories that people can look back to, to a time before all of the devastation happened.
The full TED Talk video is below.
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