Photos for the Future

In every home, there are some special photographs that hold not just precious sentimental value but also possibly valuable historical significance. The History Channel (Astro Channel 555) launches Photos for the Future today as a key initiative to invite viewers across Asia to step up and proudly share these photographs together with the unique personal stories behind them.

Whether these photos were taken 80 years ago, or just 8 months before, any photo which tells a story is welcomed. The History Channel seeks photos that help mark a moment, a period or an event in history – photos that show the changing faces of familiar local streets, the fashion trends or the customs from generations before. Even photos of your family’s very first television set, grandpa’s youthful escapades, or your adventures to places and continents far and strange, these moments captured on film may just find their place in the virtual archive of Photos for the Future.

What do you want the future generations to know and remember of your lives and that of your forefathers?

For details on Photos for the Future, a The History Channel initiative, please visit historyasia.com.


How to participate:

Photos: Photos can be scanned or carefully re-photographed at high resolution with a digital camera.

Stories: We would like to know the people in it and the background to the photograph, and tell us in less than 400 words.

Contest Date: From 10 Nov 2008 to 31 January 2009

Simply upload your photos and stories through historyasia.com and stand a chance to win a digital photo frame. You may even get to see your photo on TV!

(The best 20 entries will be selected from Malaysia, each will receive a branded digital photo frame.)

Share the past with the future, Photos for the Future.