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The rules
that keep
this good
that keep
this good
Six rules for whoever runs this in 2031
Twelve, not two hundred
Pick the best dozen from an event. A hundred near-identical frames is a hard drive, not a gallery.
Every photo gets a caption
What, who, when. An uncaptioned photo is worthless in five years and unfindable in ten.
Faces are not required
Hands at a lab bench, the ground at 4pm, chalk. The best school photographs are rarely portraits, and they need no consent form.
Consent before upload
Signed at admission, revocable any day, checked before publishing. If in doubt, it doesn't go up.
Never crop to fit
Upload it whole. The frame handles it. If a photo only works cropped, it wasn't the photo.
Start the archive now
Fifty years of school days, and the proper archive starts today — nothing is buried in a cupboard. Tag and file every event the same week it happens.