FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Operation Photo Rescue Coming to Joplin, MO El Dorado, KS.   May 27, 2011 — Operation Photo Rescue (OPR), a not-for-profit organization, will be offering assistance to the residents of Joplin whose photos have been damaged in the May 22, 2011 tornado. In the coming months, times and location will be decided upon [...]

This year OPR did only one copy run and that was to Nashville, TN. In terms of the numbers of photos brought back it was very successful. We helped 60 families and came back with over a 1,000 photos to be restored. The run was held at Belmont University and we were very fortunate to [...]

Photo Courtesy of Heather Snodgrass Operation Photo Rescue will be headed to Nashville, TN on Sept 10-11 at Belmont University. Below is the press release being sent out. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                Operation Photo Rescue to Send Volunteer Photo Restoration Team to Nashville, TN El Dorado, KS August 11, 2010 Operation Photo Rescue [...]

          (Photo Courtesy of Heather Snodgrass & Holly Ables) Plans in Works for September Copy Run Nashville, TN has taken a back seat to the disaster unfolding in the Gulf Coast, but the devastation there deserves more attention and help. Nashville suffered the worst flood in their history. The flooding was so widespread that few [...]

  Operation Photo Rescue was approached more than a year ago by Katie Miller, MFA, Associate Professor of Web and Digital Media Development at University Wisconsin-Stevens Point, about getting her students involved in helping restore photos. We communicated by emails infrequently, but that was all to change when earlier this year a letter was sent out [...]