What is left when everything is lost? Photographs and memories: happy days kept in a Polaroid, people's recollections. The LOST&FOUND PROJECT searches the sites of lives that once were for family photographs swept away by the East Japan tsunami of March 2011, and sets out to save them and help the people who lost homes, loved ones and children. A patchwork of memories, a living tableau of souvenirs: faces, hands, smiles. Whether or not each photograph went back to its owner, Munemasa Takahashi writes, handling the vast quantity by hand and with care healed wounded souls better than any words, and taught him that a photograph is not just the materialisation of a moment but an exchange of souls. Saving a past, as one supporter puts it in the English text, is helping the future, mending and salvaging dreams.