Sarah Macnaught

  

SARAH MACNAUGHT, FOUNDER

I’ve been a successful professional organiser for years.

Decluttering people’s lives, organising homes, managing large-scale downsizing projects, I’ve done it all. But one thing has always bugged me. The photographs.

All those hours spent crawling through attics, pulling suitcases from under beds, moving dusty shoeboxes out of cupboards, time and time again it was the photographs my clients treasured most. They were often unsorted and no copies existed so if they were lost in the move, they’d be gone forever.

I always felt these pictures should be shared with other family members, but most of my clients had no idea how to do that. It seemed daft to be handing them back, unsorted, to clients to put into their new loft for the next 20 years. But I had no method of organising photographs.

All of this really hit me when I returned to my native Australia for my brother’s funeral. I’d always presumed one of my 8 siblings had all the family photos but it turns out they didn’t. I realised our memories are scattered around the family too. That’s when I knew I needed to find a way to help people manage their photos.

Stuff is stuff, but memories are forever. So I set up The Photo Curators.

CONTACT SARAH
“It’s incredible that our children are now adults. But more incredible that we spent our lives as parents trying to capture all their memories, just to shove it all into closets. But the thought of digging out photos from around the house was always a daunting exercise. On my birthday this year, my wife gave me just a card with a link from The Photo Curators. And there they were – our life time memories – organised, saved and now searchable and shareable. Giving me back our memories is simply the best gift ever.”
Patrick - Dad, Son, Reluctant Skydiver
“There exists just one known vinyl LP of my father’s band playing the steel drums in Jamaica. He is clearly featured on the album cover and so is my mother - in the background as the groupie! Sarah’s team preserved and recreated this album for all my family to enjoy and share for decades to come.”
Mike - Life Coach, Free Diver
“My mother was the family historian. What I inherited was beyond belief - over 100 scrapbooks, a lifetime of travel photo albums, slides, videos and diaries. Without Sarah’s help, the entire mess would have just crowded out my loft for another 20 years and overwhelmed the next generation. My brother and I now can share our curated life stories with our children without the angst.”
Gavin - Widower, Superdad, Kilt wearer, Piste Slayer
“We moved our parents into retirement living and it was Sarah’s good sense to capture our family home and bring together our entire family archive of memories and events for all of us to own and share. Her photobook was the most wonderful present to our parents after their move.”
Yvonne - Daughter of Downsizing Parents, Bannister Slider
“Sarah and her team are excelling at making sense of our overwhelming family archive. We are starting to realise that our memories are no longer a burden for any of us to sort, but a powerhouse of images to share.”
Andrew & Rob – Sons & Executors, 1989 USA Road Trip Survivors
“When our brother died, it suddenly showed us that the few family photos we collectively possessed had not been shared with all nine siblings. Sarah’s work to sort, save and share our family legacy enables each of us to enjoy and share our memories with our own children and grandchildren.”
Lucy - Sister to Eight, Mother of Four, Besotted Grandmother of One and a Half

The Photo Curators acknowledges that we live and work on the land of the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people, the Traditional Custodians of this land. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging.

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