Ever since I watched a Stephen Poliakoff drama called Shooting the Past, I wanted to work in a photo library.

The best part of it wasn’t the show itself (about a group of eccentric people running a huge photo archive and trying to stop it from being bought up and shut down) but the little segments that ran throughout the week it was being shown.

Basically, it consisted of members of the cast telling stories based on photos from the archive. They were all totally different, some relying on just one photo and others relying on several.

One of them that really stuck in my head, was the old lady with pictures from Germany through the thirties and into the war. It was just normal pictures of crowds around big nazi parades and what not. The whole rise to power culminating in the holocaust. Then she picked out one guy, one face, that appeared in every picture. Ending up in a concentration camp, but previously in every one of the photos picked. Just a face in the crowd, but still a huge story. And a mostly unknown one at that.

I’m not sure of the relevance, but thanks for the heads up. I like photos.