Six photographers participate in the Memory Palace Project: Catherine Buchanan, Dale Dahrens, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud, Lois Miller, Roy Rousseau and Jay Stillions contribute the best photos from their portfolios, offering these images for sale as fine art prints.

Photographers provide geographic information for images, which are then mapped using a variety of methods, such as Google Maps and through direct use of the USGS Topo series. As part of the project, the dataset will be further enhanced through experimentation with new geodata technologies and publishing applications.

"Memory Palace" is a literary allusion to an ancient art where practitioners visually placed objects in chambers to improve their recollection of events (see the article Memory Palaces for more information). The interface for this project will explore how photographic images interrelate with geographic markers, maps from various sources, modern technology and human memory.

The software we built to power this site is eSPG v2.0, which has been released as open source software. Sponsored by Point B Studio, The software supports detailed annotation ("footnotes") of objects (such as artwork or photos), including citations, dimensions, latitude/longitude and other identification metadata. For a small donation, you can help support this project and others that run on the eSPG software code base.