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ALYSSA WELCH

On CraftJune 2026

The case for printing your photographs

Hard drives fail quietly. Prints fail loudly, over decades, and even then beautifully.

Every family I photograph owns more photographs than any generation in history, and fewer photographs they can hold. The math is strange: ten thousand images on a phone, none on a wall.

A print is a decision. It says: of all the hours, this one. That decision is most of what makes an heirloom — not the paper, though the paper matters, but the choosing.

This is why every collection I deliver ends in an object. The gallery is where photographs live; the print is where they last.