THIS PHOTOGRAPH HAS BEEN DELETED
Yes, you read that right — I uploaded this photograph privately to Pinterest, then I deleted it.
When I hit delete I was told “you won’t be able to get it back,” before confirming my intention, again hitting delete. The fact you can see this file at all means, theoretically, that all private uploads to Pinterest are public (if you can find them). While I don’t know how long this photograph will last on a server somewhere in the world, I thought I’ll leave it here (as a linked image), and together we shall see!
Post Script — the words in this photograph are by the inspirational picture book maker Oliver Jeffers and Austin Kleon, from whose blog you too can download Read a Book Instead for your screen.
I'd love to read your reflective writing on this process – what insights came from this experiment? What could you differently, or next? Could you try to visualise where the photograph might actually "be" – where is a photograph in the cloud? On a server?
May 01, 2018 by Zoe