Start with the brief
A neighborhood, a building, a period, a subject, or a visual direction gives us something specific to investigate. You can bring a collection or ask us to help identify sources.
Service
Find images that belong in your project.
We help creative teams find relevant material in archives and image collections, with the source information needed to take an idea further.
A selection you can work with
Receive a shortlist of images with source links, available dates and credits, and notes on their relevance. We flag missing information and rights questions for follow-up.
Decide what to make
The selection can inform a publication, an exhibition, an artwork, or an interactive experience. If you want to build an application around it, we scope that separately. Image selection does not grant reproduction rights.
MTL Archives
MTL Archives shows how a photographic collection can support browsing, editorial stories, and public experiences. Your project may call for a different selection and format.
See the case study ↗Tell us about the place, theme, or experience you have in mind. An early brief is enough.
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