Sending an image of home, a photograph that you have taken yourself or which you have acquired from a passing photographer or one from the village: this practice experienced extraordinary popular popularity between 1905 and 1915 in the rural areas of deep America. This boom in photo cards is favored threefold: by the simplification of access to photographic practice, by the remarkable drop in shipping costs, and finally by the modernization and free postal deliveries. Deliveries are frequent, as evidenced by postmarks. Thus, a card sent from one village to another could reach its destination the same day or the next day. At a time when American homes are far from all equipped with telephones, photo cards become the visual and verbal links between generations of Americans, who, often newly settled, live far from big cities. “I’ll be back on Thursday if all goes well. »; “The dog is sick. He must have been etherealized. »; “That’s where I spend most of my time. »; “How are these photos you took of us? »; “Where there is a cross, that’s my cousin. »; “The storm passed not far but it spared us. ". Will Write Soon highlights the aesthetic and documentary qualities of nearly 250 photographs which were most often taken by amateurs. The materiality of these everyday memories is underlined, and the back of the images is shown. Will Write Soon is based on the collection of photographic cards assembled by collector and author David Thomson. Luce Lebart & David Thomson