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American graduation — capturing four years in one afternoon
The cap-and-gown ritual that turns every parent into a photographer and every photographer into a deer in headlights.
An American graduation is one of the few moments in adult life where every parent in attendance transforms into a wedding photographer. The walk across the stage. The diploma handover. The hat throw. Every parent in the bleachers has their phone up, and every parent is filming the wrong angle.
The bottleneck
You hire no photographer for graduation. The school takes a stiff portrait of every graduate that costs $35 to download two months later. The candid shots — the hug from grandma, the tassel turn, the family picnic afterward in the parking lot — exist only on the phones of the family who showed up.
Why it matters
Graduations span every age. Pre-K graduations. Middle-school graduations. High school. Bachelor's. Master's. PhD. A typical American family ends up with photos from a dozen graduations across decades. Each one is a moment the family will reference at the next graduation ("look how small you were here"). And each one is at risk of being lost when phones change hands.
What changes with one shared album
Print a QR on the back of the celebration invitation. Every aunt, uncle, and grandparent scans on arrival. Every photo from the ceremony to the after-dinner toast lands in one place. The graduate gets a complete album the day after — and so does the graduate's mom, who is going to put it in a photo book for Christmas.
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