Below is an excerpt of an interview I did with the Toronto Star in May 2009:

Preprost acts as liaison between loser and finder, no fees involved. The reward is solving the mystery, Whose Camera Is It Anyway? Blog readers often comment on photos, recognizing landmarks, pointing out clues.

So far, Preprost and his online do-gooders have connected 18 mislaid cameras with their relieved owners. These days, a forgotten digital camera means not 24 or 36 lost pictures but potentially hundreds stored on the memory card.

“The first three months of my daughter’s life was on that camera,” says Raechel McFarland of Fresno, California, who had left it in a rental car during a Florida vacation.

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Click here to read an article on IFoundYourCamera by Nancy White from the Toronto Star and learn about some of the success stories – from Toronto to California to Pennsylvania – and the lost cameras still waiting to be claimed by their owners.

These days, a forgotten digital camera means not 24 or 36 lost pictures but potentially hundreds stored on the memory card.

“The first three months of my daughter’s life was on that camera,” says Raechel McFarland of Fresno, California, who had left it in a rental car during a Florida vacation.

A man who later got the car tried turning in the camera to the rental company, but its agents suggested Preprost’s blog. A friend of the Fresno mother spotted the posted pictures.

“I was absolutely ecstatic when I saw my photos,” says McFarland, who was reunited with the camera, a treasured present from her husband.

Below is an excerpt of an interview I did with the Associated Press as it was published in newspapers across North America.

His site was inspired by a submission to PostSecret.com, where people submit secrets on the Internet via handmade post cards. In early February, one posted “secret” was from someone who found a camera at Lollapalooza and wanted to reunite it with its owner.

Preprost found it compelling that the person was using PostSecret to try to connect with someone and e-mailed site-founder Frank Warren, whom he’d interviewed for his college newspaper. By the end of the day, they’d started www.Ifoundyourcamera.net together.

Preprost runs the blog — a scroll through its submissions takes you to all corners of the globe — while Warren said he serves as his mentor.

“I’ve been through a lot of the things he’s going through in terms of trying to create this community and listen to it and respect everybody’s values and allow the community to grow in a self-purposing way,” Warren said.

Please click here to read the full article as it appeared in USA Today.

Below is an excerpt of an interview I did with DigitalJournal.com.

… Preprost says, “One thing that Frank likes to do with PostSecret is share stories between the secrets and the readers, connecting strangers all over the world. IFoundYourCamera is very similar in the way that we try to focus on the stories, especially the stories of people who are reunited with memories from film that they figured they had lost forever.”

The site’s success is apparent in the gushing thank-you’s coming from the owners of the lost photos. Someone named Jerry emailed Preprost, saying: “Hi those are my pictures online! I’m so glad that you found my SD card and this is so weird that my friend actually found your site! Your site is awesome!”

Those kind of emails make the site worth the effort, Preprost says. “It’s rewarding and inspiring knowing that I am helping people by reuniting them with lost memories from monumental moments in their life,” he adds.

You can read the rest of the article and my comments here.