Call for Photographs: Too Hard to Keep

Since 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus has maintained a growing archive of images deemed “too hard to keep” by their owners. Submissions have included photos of friends, family members, pets, high school graduations, objects, and places that are too difficult to view again. Lazarus returns these shadow images to the light in the form of books and exhibitions culled from his archive, but their dark pathos remains attached.

We invite VICE readers to contribute images to Too Hard to Keep, and VICE will publish a selection of the results. Please indicate whether the photographs you submit to the archive may be exhibited in the future, or are private photographs that are only to be displayed face down. Send photos, photo albums, photo objects, or any other large submissions to the repository:

Jason Lazarus
THTK
1516 N Kedzie Ave, #3
Chicago, IL 60651