The Black Family Archive: For The Love Of LA

For those impacted by the Los Angeles fires, the loss or damage of family photographs can feel like losing a piece of your history. The Black Family Archive invites you to reconnect with your visual legacy by exploring the stories and experiences captured in your family images. This program provides support and resources to help salvage, preserve, and protect these irreplaceable memories, ensuring that they are not lost to time or disaster. Through this initiative, Black Image Center is committed to safeguarding the beauty and richness of Black family histories, honoring our ancestors, and passing these visual legacies on to future generations.

Black Family Archive is a quarterly program at Black Image Center that provides free and low cost family photo archiving and digitization services. BFA brings Black families across Los Angeles together in celebration of intergenerational bonds of love and kinship that build our communities.

Sign up here to book a session with an archivist! Do you have any smoke- damaged images or documents? Click here to book a session with a photo conservator who can help with assessing fire or water-damaged materials.

Please note: These sessions are specifically for individuals whose homes have been affected by the Los Angeles fires. We appreciate your understanding as we prioritize those in need of archiving support.

Collaborators

Endiya Griffin | Regeneration Archives

Endiya is an anthropologist, artist and memory worker whose work draws upon connections to land and ecology. Integral to her praxis as an archivist, is celebrating the eternal cycles of life we all share while inspiring new visions through the intergenerational stewardship of wisdom.

Madelyn Inez | Ode2LA

Madelyn Inez an anthropologist, archivist, and storyteller. Madelyn’s community centered archive, Ode2LA focuses on Los Angeles natives belonging to & response to gentrification. Ode2LA strives to empower the heart of the city and affirm the voices revealing our stories. Oral histories and archiving of modern life is pertinent for the preservation of Los Angeles history, which sparked the conception of Ode2LA.