Stitching on Pictures: Stitchography by Emma

The Photo Detective

In this bonus episode, I’m joined by Emma Kilburn-Smith, a mixed-media artist and graduate student who lives in Calgary. Emma made a controversial splash on the social media platform TikTok when she began sharing her work taking vintage photos and embroidering onto them.

Her passion for her work is astounding, and while many were worried at the idea of embroidering onto these photos, Emma makes certain that they tell the stories of the people she finds and helps to bring attention to these orphan photos in order to give them new life.

Related Episodes:

Episode 135: Stitch by Stitch Saving Historic Clothing a Piece at a time

Episode 155: Ancestral Handbag History with Curator Jessica Harpley

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About My Guest:

Emma is a mixed media artist and graduate student living in Calgary, Alberta. Her academic research into photo animation technologies (like DeepNostalgia) helps to inform her vibrant creative practice as an artist who embroiders on vintage found photos. With a background in journalism, her passion for the artistic medium is rooted in her curiosity for the people and the stories revealed in the photographs that she finds.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include
The View
and
The Today Show
(where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She’s been featured in
The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living
, Germany’s top newspaper
Der Spiegel
,
American Spirit,
and
The New York Times
. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at

I'm thrilled to be offering something new. Photo investigations. These collaborative one-on-one sessions. Look at your family photos then you and I meet to discuss your mystery images. And find out how each clue and hint might contribute to your family history. Find out more by going to maureentaylor.com and clicking on family photo investigations.

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