Operation Photo Rescue Heads to Seaside Heights, New Jersey

"Seaside Heights, NJ, Jan 30, 2013--Damage from Hurricane Sandy in this ocean side community was severe. These homes will be torn down in the coming weeks." Photo by Liz Roll/FEMA Thumbnail photo on homepage--The iconic roller coaster at Seaside Height boardwalk for over 70 years. Photo by Steven Zumwalt/FEMA Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) will be coming to Seaside Height, NJ on May 3-5 to help families with photos damaged by Hurricane Sandy. For instructions on the care of damage photos, please reference this Page.  

A Successful New York City Copy Run

Memories of a lifetime hit by Hurricane Sandy. The New York copy run was not only a success, but probably one of the most unique copy runs that Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) has ever had.  Katrin Eismann,  well known author and head at School of Visual Arts (SVA) and Ken Allen of Ken Allen Studios came together to host the event at SVA. Also sponsoring and attending the event:  JP Morgan Chase Technology for Social Good; William Geffert of ImagingEtc; B & H Photography; Photoshelter; and DigMyPics. Volunteers also included those from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) in New York, ...

Press Release: Operation Photo Rescue Coming to New York City to Restore Photos Damaged by Hurricane Sandy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   EL DORADO, KS – January 15, 2013 – Operation Photo Rescue (OPR), a U.S. not-for-profit organization comprised of a worldwide network of volunteers will be in New York City on February 2nd and 3rd to digitally copy photos for anyone whose pictures were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Hosted by the School of Visual Arts Masters in Digital Photography program and supported by Chase, PhotoShelter, DigMyPics, Imagingetc, and Ken Allen Studios, the OPR team will be onsite at 133 West 21st St, Room 101c in Manhattan on Saturday, February 2 and Sunday, February 3, 2013, 10am-5pm on both days. Walk-ins ...

Operation Photo Rescue Gearing Up for New York

    We are excited to announce that OPR will be teaming up author, teacher, and photographer Katrin Eismann and Ken Allen of “Ken Allen Studios, L.L.C.a dedicated digital studio that offers archival digitization of collections, exhibit prints and exhibition display printing, and consultation.   Many of us learned how to restore from Katrin's book Photoshop Restoration & Retouching and found OPR through a link to volunteer help for those hit by Hurricane Katrina. That is the path I took and now on the 7th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we are once again faced with a challenge as big as we did back 2006. ...

Season’s Greetings

  Hi Everyone, “As this year comes to a close, I’d like to thank all of you and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Somewhere in the commercialization of the holidays, the true spirit of giving gets lost. Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) is giving the best gift of all—memories restored.” I wrote this in December 24, 2008, the first year that I took over as president of Operation Photo Rescue and the thoughts I expressed back then are true today. Back then we had just gotten a flood of new volunteers after Nancy Massey put out a message on ...

Saving Photos After Hurricane Sandy

Return to Joplin.

Operation Photo Rescue (OPR) was contacted by Headline News (HLN) to see if we would be interested in an interview with Robin Meade about our efforts in Joplin. They also wanted to interview someone we had helped and to see the before/after of their restored photos. Tied into our interview would be Pastor Thad Beeler of the First Baptist Church in Carthage, MO. The members of his church and Angela Walters with her Facebook page for Lost Photo of Joplin were responsible for saving and reuniting photos that were found after the tornado. I contacted Nanda Sparks and she was ...