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The same portrait, clean and whole, the absent corner filled with plain studio backdrop
A monochrome studio portrait of a man, crazed and stained, the top corner of the print gone
Crazed all over, stained, and short of its top corner. The cracks and the stains are his photograph again. The corner is studio backdrop nobody ever stood in front of.

We mend damaged photographs.

Send the one that defeated the free websites — the split across a face, the damp stain, the corner that came away in the drawer. We mend the damage and touch nothing else.

What fills a gap in a damaged photograph is our best guess, not what was there.

Mend one photograph, freeWhat a pack costs

One photograph, no card, nothing to install.

What nobody can know

Part of what comes back was never in the photograph.

Mending puts back what the damage hid. Where a print has lost something outright — a face torn off, an area gone to mould — there is nothing beneath it to put back. The gap is filled all the same. We cannot hold the mend away from it, and it fills persuasively: a stretch of wall, a sleeve, a row of people, a face.

What fills a gap in a damaged photograph is our best guess, not what was there.

So whatever stands in a destroyed area is ours rather than yours. Everything the damage merely covered comes back as itself, which is most of most prints, but the border between the two is not marked on the file and nobody can tell you beforehand where it will run. That is what the free mend is for, and what the refund is for.

A photograph of a children's Christmas party outdoors with its right-hand quarter burned away to black
The same photograph with the burned side made good by children and women who never stood there
A quarter of this one had burned away. It came back full of children. They are not the children who stood there, and nobody alive can say who did.

How it works

  1. 1

    Scan it, or photograph it

    The print stays with you. A phone photograph by a window will do; a flatbed scan is better. JPEG, PNG, WebP or TIFF.

  2. 2

    Send it and say what is wrong

    One tap — torn, damp, faded, mould, creased, scratched. Skip it and we mend whatever is damaged and alter nothing else.

  3. 3

    Have it back

    A few minutes later, beside the one you sent. Take them one at a time or all together, and delete the lot whenever you like.

A monochrome portrait of a young bugler, the emulsion flaked away along the right-hand edge
The same portrait cleaned, that edge filled with greenery the repair invented
Lifted emulsion and staining along one edge. The print is monochrome and returns monochrome; the greenery down that edge is what the repair guessed the damage had taken.

Damage we mend

Every sort, with the limits written down.

Eight sorts of damage, each with real comparisons of that damage and a plain account of what is genuinely recovered and what is invented for you.

See what we mend

What it costs

One free, then a pack.

What most people actually have is a tin rather than a photograph, so the packs are priced by the tin. If you only ever wanted the one, it is £8.99 on its own once you have seen it mended.

  • Keepsake

    £24.99

    10 photographs · £2.50 each · paid once

  • Album

    £32.99

    20 photographs · £1.65 each · paid once

  • Shoebox

    £39.99

    50 photographs · £0.80 each · paid once

If it doesn't look like the person you remember, you don't pay.

Mend one photograph, freeSee all four

Questions we are asked

What can you actually mend?
Tears and splits, damp staining, fading and colour drift, mould and foxing, creases, surface scratches and silvering — the state most tins of family photographs are in. Severe damage is what this is built for; a print a free website handled nicely never needed us.
Can you rebuild a face that has gone?
It comes back as a face, and it is somebody else. Nothing we say to the mend keeps it out of a destroyed area, so a face that has been torn off is replaced by a plausible one. Look hard at it before you keep it, and if that is not what you hoped for, you have your money back.
Do I have to post you the print?
Never. You send a scan or a phone photograph of it, and the print itself stays in the house. That is the whole design of this.
How long does it take?
Minutes for a single photograph and roughly half an hour for fifty. We write to you when they are done, and the link in that message takes you straight back to them.
How long do you keep my photographs?
Thirty days for an order and seven for a free mend, after which the originals and the mends are deleted together. There is also a button on your own page that does it at once.
What does it cost?
The first photograph is free and no card is asked for. After that it is a pack of ten, twenty or fifty, paid once. If a mend does not look like the person you remember, you do not pay.