Stories about those days.

The stories that people have about Jamie’s photos are a source of amazement.  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 qirxiepx on 03-01-87

    It’s my birthday!

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  • From Angelina Ariola on 05-17-88

    Happy birthday to us! *hugs*

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  • From Angelina Ariola on 05-18-88

    Happy birthday to us!

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  • From Caitlyn Slick on 08-08-94

    my birthday!!!! Love the pic.

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  • From Natalie on 02-06-94

    I was born this day.

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  • From Nikita S on 03-10-96

    The day I was born. I wonder what the list was for.

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  • From Marilyn VanDerbeck Richardson on 08-18-79

    This is the day I was born August 18, in 1957. I was 20 years old in 1979, I will always Love the 70s! It was my time of being a teenager and falling in Love. I was born and still live in my home town of Saugerties New York, 10 miles from Woodstock New York.

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    • From Cara Marschke on 08-18-79

      Wow, this is my birthday, as well. Actually in 1979. So when you turned 20, I was just joining the world. But the meet thing is my made last name is Richardson.

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  • From Kaitlyn on 10-20-97

    I was born on this day. Thank you for sharing his pictures with the world.

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  • From Diogo Jesus on 07-07-95

    I was born this day 😍

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  • From Marwa Dagbashi on 08-01-92

    The day I was born. Beautiful pictures ❤️

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  • From Cathy on 12-28-91

    my birthday! <3

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  • From Kaitlin on 01-21-94

    My birthday ❤

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  • From Lillian Japhta on 10-07-86

    I was born this dayv

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  • From Mandy on 10-30-90

    I was born at 11:47am this day!

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  • From Kristin Whiting on 05-08-89

    I was born on this exact day in Manhattan. It’s amazing to see what people were doing while my mom was screaming at my dad for “what he did to her”.

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  • From Jennifer Beitzel on 06-06-87

    The day I was born, so cool to see the world going round that day 🙂

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  • From Kiki Murphree on 12-26-95

    This is the day I was born. The day after Christmas in Phoenix, Arizona.

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  • From Sehrie murphy on 05-11-80

    I was born on this day too

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  • From Garrett on 04-27-93

    My birthday! 🙂

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  • From Lauren Pincher on 06-25-97

    I write this exactly ten years after this photograph was taken. I wonder about the man in the photograph and who he was to Jamie Livingston, if anyone at all. I wonder where he is, and if he knows that he’s part of an iconic photography project that inspires thousands of people every day.
    For me, the project as a whole helps me to remember to appreciate the little snapshots in life. I will remember and immortalise in my mind the good days, just as Livingston did in his photographs.

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  • From Mc fiss on 12-18-85

    The day i was born, what a strange looking man on a picture from a far away time…

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  • From brauhan1 on 10-25-97

    As a photographer myself, all of these polaroids naturally astonished me. They’re raw and stunning. I’m even more bewildered now that I realize the photographer passed away the day before I was born in 1997. To Hugh and the creator of this website, thank you for sharing these photos with us. I hope to carry a part of your artistic spirit with me as I try to capture the world as you did.

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  • From Jessica on 05-08-82

    This was the day I was born. It was also Mother’s Day that year, along with being my mothers birthday! I look at this picture and feel how appropriate it is since so much in my short life was tangled together that day.

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  • From Marie Jenkins on 07-14-86

    In a couple of weeks it will be thirty one years since this day. I was born on this day at Saint Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham Alabama. My mom actually went in the night before but it was a long labor that lasted thru the night into the next day and almost into the next night. I love photos. All photos. The good, the bad, the ugly, they all have a story to tell. They capture a moment in time that might mean nothing to anyone else but they mean the world to the eye in the lens. See the world. Or at least see the world around you.

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  • From Deana on 07-08-95

    This is the day that I was born. This picture feels comforting for some reason? Which is very weird.

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  • From Hibaaq on 02-15-91

    Hello birthday buddies:) I love this project!

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  • From Helena on 05-31-95

    Besides seeing the photo of the day of my birth, it’s so amazing to see comments of other people having birthday on the same day!

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  • From Mary Laky on 11-04-92

    This is my birthday ❤

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  • From Anna on 04-04-91

    Same here <3

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  • From laurenlehair on 05-15-97

    I was born on this day also!

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  • From CJ (@chrisjfry) on 03-26-85

    I turned 16 on this day. I got to take a sleigh ride in the mountains of Colorado with my family. We were there for a spring-break ski trip.

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  • From CJ (@chrisjfry) on 03-27-89

    Ugh! Got the date/photo wrong. Should have been 3/26/89

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  • From CJ (@chrisjfry) on 03-27-89

    This was my 20th birthday. I was in Atlanta for spring break with a group of my college friends. I wasn’t able to be with my family, who lived in Houston.

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  • From John Constantine on 01-11-85

    It’s just a simple story: this day I was born. And so the story began.

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  • From Mariajose Zaugg on 07-25-91

    My Birthday. Also, I have always loved the circus!

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  • From Jules on 10-16-84

    PS this is an amazing thing, thank you for sharing it with everyone

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  • From Jules on 10-16-84

    This is actually the day I was born =)

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  • From S.R.O on 11-01-93

    My heart stopped three times this day as my mother was giving birth to me in Cincinnati Ohio.

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  • From Traci on 07-10-83

    This a very cool picture. It’s the closest to my birthday. I guess he didn’t take one on the 9th 🙁

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  • From Mike on 03-31-92

    The day I was born

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    • From Knut Gustav ravn valand skjeklesæther on 03-31-92

      Me too man. 9 months after my dad walked past my mom playing guitar and singing on the street

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  • From S.Maria on 04-12-95

    My birthday ❤️

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  • From Erica Seed on 03-01-93

    I had just seen the video on facebook about Jamie Livingston and being a photographer myself I loved this photo. And to find a moment in each day where it’s the picture he felt he should take is inspiring. What an idol to have. I chose to look at this picture because I was born on March 1st, 1993. And I love this photo. It’s rustic, it’s expression, it’s his cigarette, it’s that fur coat too lol. I can’t wait to go through all of is photos. A Truly Amazing Individual!

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  • From Alexandre Cardana on 11-18-82

    Wrong date. My mistake. I was born on the 17th. Feel free to remove both comments on this day

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  • From Alexandre Cardana on 11-17-82

    I was born this day. I think it’s the first time I’ve sent it. Thank you so much, Jamie, for making a difference to one’s life even though it’s been 20 years since you’ve left us.

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  • From Alexandre Cardana on 11-18-82

    I was born this day. I think it’s the first time I’ve sent it. Thank you so much, Jamie, for making a difference to one’s life even though it’s been 20 years since you’ve left us.

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  • From Frank Flowers on 11-13-90

    Born on this day as well!

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  • From Melissa Henderson on 05-24-90

    This is probably the day it would have been in America the time I was born in Australia.

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  • From Melissa Henderson on 05-25-90

    My birthday 🙂

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  • From Jay Hall on 06-20-92

    And me! Philadelphia, PA, USA

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  • From Marius on 10-06-90

    Born that day 🙂

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