Sebastian WINTERMUTE

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Working with monastic devotion from a studio located on Lower East Side of Manhattan a neighborhood famed for its diversity and vibrant creative life, Sebastian Wintermute offers personalized photo restoration and photo retouching, document restoration and preservation services to private clients, non profit organizations, family history and genealogy research experts and enthusiasts. Two smiling aviators stand in front of an airplane made of canvas and wood, posing for a picture with a small town mayor.A spaceship surges into the sky amid fire and smoke. A few lines of faded handwriting on a worn-out paper declare that a man has been honorably discharged from the Union Army for which he volunteered at the age of 15 at the outbreak of the Civil War. For over a decade Sebastian Wintermute has been providing those interested in preservation of visual history and ancestral legacy an opportunity to restore photographs, images and documents that otherwise would literally fade away with years. Through his hands went thousands of old pictures and faded pages, from camera obscura portraits of American settlers to NASA documentation of Apollo Moon missions; from Revolutionary War veteran’s land grant signed by the Founding Fathers to snapshots of GIs crossing the Rhine during the final months of WWII. Many of the photographs and documents were brought in by New York City residents, others were sent in from as far away as Hawaii and Europe. Some were lovingly kept in family albums, passed from one generation to the next, others were found in dusty attics and dirty basements. However, all of them contain great personal value as well as a visual history of people, their families and heritage. Working with monastic devotion from an unassuming studio on Manhattan’s culturally vibrant Lower East Side, Sebastian helps people from all walks of life, from recent African immigrants, to decedents of European nobility, to preserve their pasts. Sebastian’s knowledge of arts, photography and restoration techniques makes him a true expert in the field of photo restoration, while his deep knowledge and passion for history often turns seemingly simple restoration project into fascinating journeys of discovery of long forgotten names, places and events. Whether a photograph or a document is signed by a US president or a high school sweetheart, they receive the highest quality care available. Because of that Sebastian has been entrusted to restore and to preserve photographs and documents not only by individual clients nation wide, but also by some of the most prestigious and well-known companies and organizations in the country. Quality restoration done by an experienced professional returns photographs that are about to vanish forever back to near pristine condition, to be appreciated as originally intended and to be safely shared with family and loved ones. The process of photo restoration begins with a consultation during which the damage to the photograph is assessed and the client is advised about which techniques might be required to bring the image back and what materials may be used to do that.

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