 Hi, I'm Shannon Brogdon Grantham. I'm a photograph and paper conservator at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute. So I'm gonna talk to you today a little bit about what got me into conservation. I have always been interested in photography even as a kid. I used to sit looking at photo albums all the time wondering how the things were made and so as I got older I became interested in science and then I discovered our conservation when I was in college and it was the perfect marriage of art and science for me and I felt like it was the right choice. And so that's kind of what got me in. And then what keeps me in is that I get to I get to experience a lot of different types of photographs, different collections. Being at the Smithsonian we have millions of photographs, so there's no way that I would be able to see every single photograph, but I get to see a lot in my job at MCI because I get to work with all of the Smithsonian units in some capacity. So I think the variety and the opportunity to like touch the future to some degree and the past is what keeps me in.