The Past Was Never This Close.
Photographs, places, and moments brought back into view
through thoughtful restoration and cinematic interpretation.
WELCOME
Some images do more than show us where we came from. They remind us how it felt to be there. Using historical photographs, I create visual interpretations that allow the past to breathe again. Still moments are restored and extended into motion, forming gentle bridges between memory, place, and time.
Videos
Episode 1 - Back In Time
A quiet journey back to an earlier Dubuque. Familiar places like Union Park and Melody Mill are gently brought to life, inviting memory, recognition, and a fleeting return to how it once felt.
Episode 2 - The Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine travels through the Flats and downtown Dubuque, offering a glimpse into streets, stories, and moments from the city’s past, inviting you to step inside and see how it once felt.
Episode 3 - Dubuque Malting & Brewing Co.
Dubuque Malting & Brewing Co. rewinds to a time when brewing was part of daily life - where work, craft, and community met on the river.
Episode 4 - River Giants of Dubuque
The massive River Giants of Dubuque - steamboats that built Dubuque - brought back to life in motion, color, and story.
About Garth
Garth is a self-described "Ai Historian", visual storyteller, and part-time action hero. When he’s not carefully restoring century-old photographs and bringing the past gently back to life, he can be found diving behind concrete barriers in slow motion explosions. No one is quite sure why this keeps happening. It just does.