Stories about those days.

The stories that people have about Jamie’s photos are a source of amazement. Β Some are of the “that’s me and we were doing this” type of stories from Jamie’s friends. Some are the “I never met Jamie but this was taken on my birthday and it means a lot to me. And some are just stunningly moving one of a kind stories.

  • From Tiffany Chapman on 01-04-90

    This is my birthday also.. more specifically my birth year also and I love cats. So this just fills me with so much joy

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  • From Steven Jones on 10-28-85

    This is such an amazing photo for many reasons, this is the day my journey of life began. And I also own a hohner much like this. Beautiful.

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  • From Spencer Wood on 01-31-84

    After hearing about him on Instagram I just had to visit and see what my birthday picture was. I am astonished and a little emotional being a collector of vinyl myself having something like 1,200 in my collection this means a lot. Thank you for sharing -Spencer

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  • From Megan on 10-12-85

    10/11 + 10/12 are the same photo

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  • From Jennifer Esneault on 08-05-80

    I’m a photographer, and I was born on this day, August 5, 1980. I love how timeless these moments are.

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  • From Rob Crowson on 07-11-90

    I am an architect! This was a day after I was born.

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  • From Kayleigh on 03-10-86

    The day i was born!
    Such a cool photo.

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  • From Kay on 03-11-86

    The day i was born. It looks like a sperm πŸ˜‚

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  • From Christopher poulton on 09-25-93

    This is the day I was born….

    I’m happy to see people were smiling rather then being upset πŸ™‚

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  • From Colleen on 07-13-87

    The day my husband was born <3

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  • From Colleen on 07-22-89

    The day my sister was born!

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  • From Colleen on 09-06-92

    This is the day I was born πŸ™‚

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  • From Rachel on 06-27-85

    This is my birthday!

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  • From Estrella on 08-11-83

    My birthday as well… 8/11/1983. But what is that?! I was hoping for something, I don’t know, nicer, sweeter…? Cool project anyway!

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  • From Nicholas John on 06-18-85

    I think these are numbered incorrectly and are off by one day as the album started out with the first picture labeled as Jan 2nd, 1985. Hope so out at least bc I really wanted this gargoyle to be from my born day- 6/17/85. OP can you look into this?

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  • From Grace on 04-03-80

    18 years before I was born! How awesome.

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  • From Sarah Keller on 05-05-85

    I was born on this day… supposed to be a boy and surprised my father by being his second daughter. (ultrasounds were so finiky back then) just recently my dad said he wouldn’t have traded a million of us for a boy.

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  • From Rebecca on 04-30-94

    This was the day I was born!

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  • From Anna on 07-06-90

    Me too

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  • From Callen on 11-06-94

    Wow. Weird to look at this and realize this was the day I was born.

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  • From R.Stock on 12-02-89

    I was born this day…I’m loving this collection. <3

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  • From Ashley on 03-27-85

    Also my birthday exact day and year. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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  • From Eriko on 03-01-90

    The day i was born!

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  • From Apinya on 11-12-87

    The day I was born πŸ€—

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  • From Devin Pradana on 02-09-89

    The Day I was born, Amazing.

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  • From Kelsey on 02-07-94

    Day my wife was born. πŸ™‚

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  • From Kelsey on 07-12-93

    The day I was born. Such a beautiful shot!~ πŸ™‚

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  • From Harley K on 09-02-90

    Hey me too

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  • From Johnny Popular on 06-23-87

    I was born on this day, I really like this photo

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  • From Jeff on 01-18-87

    The day I was born

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  • From raffyrocks on 05-02-91

    this is the best day of my life . the day i was born

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  • From Nabeel on 01-03-83

    My birthday. -nabeel

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  • From B on 03-19-81

    Happy Birthday

    My best friend, first love, first kiss.

    He was the embodiment of my my 17 year old self, my aspirations, my hopes, my motivation, my changes, my tears, my lack of maturity, my faults, my best memories, my dreams, and my perfect friend.

    Time. Time wasn’t even borrowed. Nor truly shared. Time was stolen. I stole his time. Much more time than I needed. Greed. Losing vision of the big picture. That he stayed my friend even when I rejected his admiration and genuine like. Why can’t I engrave that on every visible part of my body so that I can remember how he treated me. He liked me for myself. When will I ever do the same? He has my aspirations.
    But he changed. He felt different. I could never imagine how the word “different” terrified me. The thought of me asking “Do you still like me for who I am?” just scare the tears from their dark caves of emotion. To run anywhere and everywhere. After all, my wish to that question was the reason I liked him.

    Maybe even loved him.

    2/5/17_

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  • From Maddie Burt on 03-09-97

    Its my Birthday too!! xx Love from Australia xx

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  • From Andrew Prather on 02-01-82

    The day i joined the universe

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  • From Christine Phillips on 05-24-89

    This was the day I was birn

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  • From Patrick H. on 05-31-93

    the day I was born…

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  • From Lauren on 10-21-84

    My birthday. Love this!

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  • From Jason Silva on 02-12-80

    The day of my birth

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  • From Natalia on 02-29-96

    This was the day I was born

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  • From Malin on 02-28-86

    I turned 20 on the 28th of february 1986. My mother and I went out to a really fancy restaurant in Stockholm, Sweden, to celebrate my birthday but hers as well since she turned 60 just a few days later. We had planned to catch a movie, a new swedish film called “the Mozart Brothers”, before dinner but decided not to go. We had a great time and went home a few hours before midnight. Just an hour later the phone rang and one of my mothers friends called. He was very upset and shouted, almost cried “Palme is dead, Olof Palme has been shot!” Swedish Prime Minster Olof Palme had been assassinated just before midnight after a visit to a cinema with his wife. They had watched “the Mozart Brothers”.

    The murder was never solved and the name of the murderer, the motif or anything else around this case is still a mystery. Swedes can often tell what they were doing at this specific time and I guess you can say that we as a nation all took a shot that night.

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  • From lo on 04-23-93

    my birthday. [: art is love.

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  • From Taler on 05-12-85

    My name is Taler. I was born on this day. This website is incredible….please never take it down. Keep it going, so that others can see and continue to catch a glimpse of the eyes of Jamie Livingston. Awesome site!!!

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  • From Michael Jenkins on 05-01-97

    Lol this was the day I was born

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  • From Maritza Lozowski on 02-14-89

    The exact day I was born lovely photo

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  • From Pingo on 01-08-97

    I too was born this exact day, in 1997 over in Guadalajara. To think 20+ years later I would be looking at this day through another picture, it really puts the size of ourselves into perspective. It’s a constant exercise to remember that others are experiencing their own reality at the same time I am, and everyone else is living their own life doing their own things without ever knowing what a complete stranger is doing thousands of miles away. Of course, who would think this, if not only a second before going back to our own lives? I am grateful for this photo collection in it’s entirety, because even though I never knew Jamie Livingston, I am allowed to look into the life of a complete stranger and see that they too were living that day, they too were busy breathing and thinking and loving life. This is just my opinion, of course, but it really brings about the sense of humanity into a tangible perspective. And I absolutely love it.

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  • From Rob on 05-03-86

    I was being born πŸ™‚

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  • From David Gebhardt on 12-06-95

    They day my first daughter was born. She is 21 now and graduating college in the fall. Art is all around us all the time. God bless.

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  • From Rachel on 06-04-79

    My day of birth as well!

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  • From Eric on 10-23-81

    I was born that day, over in Newark…

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