Pictures and prose: Creating new stories for old photographs


Hollow City pics.

Ransom Riggs' desire to create new stories for old photographs resulted in an intriguing series of books.

With their ability to capture a moment in time, most photographs evoke a particular memory or story. But what about those photos that have been left behind with no context or connection? The ones that have been, in one way or another, “lost”? Could they perhaps become part of a new story?

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