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EST. MARCH 2010 · PORTLAND, OR · VOL. XIV

Vol. XIV · The Photo Archive

Twenty-Eight Thousand Four Hundred Photographs,
One Living Timeline.

From a 1999 school portrait to last week's set still — every image captioned, dated, and source-cited by an independent team of archivists who have been at this since March 2010.

Browse 28,400+ photographs How the archive is moderated
Established
March 2010
Founded in
Portland, OR
Volume
XIV · Issue No. 312

Editor's note · Filed under Archive

A gallery kept like a library.

Most fan galleries are a folder of unsourced JPEGs. This archive is closer to a museum catalogue. Every photograph that enters the collection is captioned, dated, and traced back to a photographer, event, or studio credit before it is published — a workflow Maya Calderón and Theo Wren set in place in 2010 and which our 14-person volunteer moderation council still maintains today.

The collection spans 1999 to the present and now holds 28,400+ images across 312 filmography entries, 47 verified sit-down interviews, and three sold-out collaborative vintage collections with RetroFit. We treat her career as a living timeline worth preserving — not a content feed.

  • i.Every photograph carries a caption, a date, and a verifiable source line.
  • ii.Color and black-and-white originals are preserved side by side — no auto-filtering.
  • iii.The archive is browsable by decade, project, photographer, and event, not by upload date.

Enter the archive by era

Six doorways into twenty-five years of work.

Each tile is a curated filter — not a date range, but a fully captioned set reviewed by an editor before it was made public.

1999 – 2004 Mumford · Almost Famous · early work 1,840 photographs
Photograph from the 2005–2009 archive set, the Elf and 500 Days era.
2005 – 2009 Elf · 500 Days · She & Him vol. I 3,210 photographs
Photograph from the 2010–2014 archive set, the New Girl premiere era.
2010 – 2014 New Girl S1–S4 · touring with M. Ward 5,170 photographs
2015 – 2019 Rock the Kasbah · BrainDead · She & Him Classics 4,920 photographs
Photograph from the 2020–2024 archive set, the What We Do in the Shadows era.
2020 – 2024 What We Do in the Shadows · Dreamin' 6,580 photographs
A sealed archival envelope labeled Unreleased, indicating the private unreleased photographs collection. Members only
Unreleased Cameos, music videos, and unreleased sets 6,680 photographs

“A photograph without a source line is a rumor. We started this archive in a Portland basement fourteen years ago because we wanted every image to survive the news cycle it came from — captioned, dated, and traceable to a person who pressed the shutter. That has not changed.”

Maya Calderón & Theo Wren Founding curators, since March 2010

Browse the collection

Five ways to narrow 28,400 photographs.

Filters stack. A single photograph can be reached through any combination below.

  1. 01

    By Decade

    1999 – 2004 · 2005 – 2009 · 2010 – 2014 · 2015 – 2019 · 2020 – 2024 · Unreleased. Each span is editorially curated, not date-stamped.

    6 buckets
  2. 02

    By Project

    312 filmography entries including unreleased projects, cameos, and music-video appearances not listed on IMDb.

    312 entries
  3. 03

    By Photographer

    Filter by the credited photographer when a source line is available. Includes set photographers, editorial shoots, and paparazzi credits clearly labeled.

    1,140+ credits
  4. 04

    By Event & Era

    Premieres, festivals, press tours, stage appearances, and the Sunday She & Him listening club archive — all indexed by date and venue.

    2,460 events
  5. 05

    By Color & Black-and-White

    Toggle original color and black-and-white scans side by side. No auto-filtering — original capture is preserved.

    B&W · Color

The collection, by the numbers

A museum kept by fans, scaled for the open web.

Photographs archived
28,400images

1999 to present, captioned and source-cited.

Years continuous
14years

Operating the zooey-deschanel.net domain since March 2010.

Filmography entries
312entries

Including unreleased projects, cameos, and music-video appearances.

Annual readers
9.4million

Unique visitors in calendar year 2023, per Similarweb estimates.

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