21 reasons people print one.
An occasion is not a design. Every book prints in every design and every size — this is just the door you came in by.
A new baby
The first year, before it blurs.
You will take four thousand photos and look at none of them. This is the one that ends up on the shelf, and the one the grandparents ask for a copy of.
2 designsA trip
The trip, in something better than an album.
A week away is eight hundred photos and no story. Remembr finds the days worth keeping and lays them out while the tan is still on.
5 designsA wedding
The day itself, and everything around it.
The photographer covers the ceremony. Nobody covers the morning, the taxi, the last hour of the night. Those are on your phone.
2 designsThe year with the kids
A school year, start to finish.
First day, last day, and the ordinary Tuesdays in between — which are the ones you will actually miss.
4 designsThe holidays
Once a year, all of them in one room.
The only days everyone is in the same house. Worth more than a folder called December.
4 designsA new home
Before the boxes, and after.
Empty rooms, the first meal on the floor, the garden a year later. A house becomes a place slowly, and only in photos.
3 designsA pet
For the one who won't look at the camera.
Your camera roll is already mostly this. It may as well be a book.
1 designSomeone we lost
Somewhere to keep them.
Photos of a person you have lost are hard to look through and harder to organise. Remembr does the looking, and gives you something to hold.
1 designJust the year
No occasion. Just the year you had.
Most of a life is not an event. A book every month, quarter, or year, made out of the ordinary parts.
3 designsThe months before
Nine months is a story too.
The scan on the fridge, the room half-painted, the last dinner as two people. It all gets forgotten the week the baby arrives — unless somebody printed it.
2 designsThe day they came home
The day the family changed shape.
Adoption, fostering, a long wait finally over. A first year that started later than most, and is worth telling from the beginning.
3 designsA big birthday
Forty years, in one sitting.
The round-number birthdays are the ones people make speeches at. A book beats a speech: everybody sends their photos, one person makes it, and it lasts longer than the cake.
3 designsWhen they moved out
Eighteen years, and then the car pulls away.
They take a duvet and a kettle. You are left with a room and a phone full of them. This is the book that goes in the bag, and the one that stays on your shelf.
3 designsLiving far apart
For the people who see it all on a screen.
A grandparent in another country does not want a link. Post them the year instead — it turns up, it stays out on the table, and it does not need a password.
4 designsFor the grandparents
The present they actually keep.
They have enough candles and enough jumpers. What they do not have is the last twelve months of your kids, printed, in order, with the dates on.
4 designsA hard year
It wasn't all of it.
An illness, a separation, a year you would not repeat. The photos still have good days in them, and seeing them laid out in order is a different thing from scrolling past.
3 designsThe friends
The group chat, printed.
Ten years of the same six people, mostly around tables. Nobody is ever going to organise these photos, which is the entire reason this exists.
3 designsA season with the team
One season, every muddy Saturday.
The team photo is the least interesting picture of the year. The warm-ups, the substitutes, the parents on the touchline in the rain — those are the season.
2 designsA retirement
Forty years, and a box of desk things.
A career ends with a card everyone signed in a hurry. A book of the whole run — the people, the offices, the trips — is the version worth handing over.
3 designsThe thing you built
From the state it was in, to this.
A house gutted and put back, a garden made out of nothing, a boat that took four winters. You photographed every stage. It deserves to be seen in order.
2 designsEveryone back in one place
The reunion, before everyone scatters again.
It took two years to arrange and it lasted a weekend. Everyone shot it from their own seat — collect the lot, print it, and post a copy to each of them.
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