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 Mariah on 03-07-92

    This is my birth date too!

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  • From Darcie489 on 04-17-97

    This is my date of birth

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  • From Radina Vladimirova on 01-25-97

    My date of birth 🙂
    He is probably looking for a book that matches his mood.
    We all search for beauty in our lives. Sometimes on our bookshelves.

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  • From David Thomas on 05-15-92

    This is the day I was born!!!!

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  • From Sarah Frantz on 07-07-85

    This was my belly button birthday. Have had a few rebirths since but this tells me that I might want to begin knitting. What a beautiful life!

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  • From rubiel villaflores on 06-12-95

    it’s my birthday <3 from the Philippines

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  • From D.j. Glass on 12-21-87

    The day my little sister was born.

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  • From D.j. Glass on 04-26-86

    The day my little brother John (now dead) was born.

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  • From D.j. Glass on 07-10-84

    The day my brother Paul Glass was born.

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  • From D.j. Glass on 05-22-82

    The day I was born.

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  • From D.j. Glass on 05-23-82

    The day I was born 🙂

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  • From M.o. Shemy on 08-07-87

    happy birthday

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  • From Berry Lamperouge on 01-11-93

    On this day, only two hours after Halloween ended, under a full moon, I was born. Today, I found this site thanks to a video on FB and I’m so glad I did. I’m grateful his friends put these up.

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  • From Kendra on 04-14-80

    this is the day, my mother gave birth to me. i love, that it’s Abstract.

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  • From Diana on 02-02-89

    I was born in this day in Bogotá, Colombia.
    It makes me feel who I am: someone who is always watching, paying attention to details…Trying to stay focus or to see closer like this girl….Amazing job by the way.

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  • From Maria on 01-24-81

    On this day I was born. I like that he was going through records and tapes. It’s funny because my mom didn’t like my taste in music and I was a late teen before I had the money to buy music for myself. I used to make mixed tapes off the radio just to get the songs I liked. My first tape I bought was Green Day. Now as an adult I have ample music subscription and I’m never without music I like but my passion is reading and science.

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  • From Ami on 10-15-82

    My brother was born on this day.
    He is the person I’m closest to on this planet. I can’t even begin to explain how much I love him.

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  • From Ami on 05-02-79

    I was born on this day.

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  • From Kay on 10-11-85

    Why is this picture identical to the next one? Is it how it was intended? Are they two different photos in fact, recreated meticulously? (Would that even be possible, with Polaroid?) Is that the only case of missing/misplaced/mysteriously repeating pictures?
    And why does my birthday have to look like this? A weird photograph, not something bright and fun and easily classy I could have shared online to enjoy a small surge of attention. Polaroids are trendy now, but dark and odd pictures like this are among the reasons behind the bulky momentary camera’s decline. Once you make it you cannot unmake it; once you take it you cannot give it back. Polaroids are eternal. Polaroids are ephemeral. If you cut a Polaroid photograph it leaks and smudges. Its mystical chemical integrity breached, it is destroyed.
    A strange man. A question mark. A mirror, a kitchen – seems to sum up my life attitude. And pajama pants exactly like those I’m wearing right now as I’m writing this, a story of a picture that may or may not have been made on my birthday. Even here, on the picture project I accidentally stumbled upon and likely will forget about in a day or two, I cannot be free of doubts.

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  • From Susan Cogswell Eggleston on 08-08-88

    My best friend was born this day. We have known each other 26 years.

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  • From Susan Cogswell Eggleston on 04-20-83

    My parents married on this day in Hawaii. At the time they lived in California. They are still together. I am their only child.

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  • From Susan Cogswell Eggleston on 12-30-87

    The day of my birth. I arrived almost a month early and surprised my parents. My CPA father got a kick out of the fact that my given initials were SEC and I was an unanticipated tax credit.

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  • From Susan Cogswell Eggleston on 10-22-87

    The day my husband was born. He works for a health insurance company and we are building a family.

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  • From Bailey on 04-29-88

    My best friend, and I, both born on this day. I’d like to think these two are friends in the photo; their mischievous grins seem almost familiar.

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  • From Christie on 08-10-81

    This is the day I was born. I was three weeks late, and wasn’t breathing. It’s a miracle I’m here. These photos are amazing, thank you for preserving them and this man’s legacy.

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  • From Alexandra on 10-31-86

    This was the day I came into the world. The picture is very fitting. I also think its neat, all these years I thought I was born on a Thursday but no, it was a Friday; my favorite day of the week.

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  • From Kate on 12-06-95

    I was also born on this day in 1995. So amazing to see such honest and incredible work.

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  • From jd4rider on 07-07-87

    My Birthday

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  • From Bailey Maier on 02-21-94

    Taken the day I was born ❤️️

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  • From Prodigal Brock on 05-22-84

    My birthday

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  • From Rylee on 03-27-90

    My birthday

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  • From Sammy on 12-06-95

    I was born on this day and 21 also. As a budding filmographer and photographer he has influenced me greatly. His work is beautiful and honest.

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  • From Isabelle on 03-06-96

    This was the day I was born. My grandfather died just days before and I ended up coming into this world on the day of his funeral. My boyfriend and his twin sister have the same birthday as he did.

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    • From Krista S. on 03-06-96

      Isabelle, that is both special and beautiful. I was also born on this day. My Grandma passed away before my birth as well… I’ve always considered her to be my guardian angel. Wishing all the best to a twin from another family.

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  • From Callie on 04-08-94

    The day I was born.

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  • From ingernet on 06-24-91

    This was my 16th birthday. My mom threw me a surprise party in the park, and it was the only birthday I’d had up to that point where it didn’t rain. Tiny miracles.

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  • From Aoife on 04-19-97

    This is the day I was born 04/19/1997. God bless you Jamie
    Livingston ❤️

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  • From Erika Merriweather on 09-02-83

    You & Jamie Livingston
    On the day you were born,
    Somewhere in Brooklyn,
    A man took a polaroid picture of himself
    Staring into the mirror behind a reception desk.
    He didn’t smile.
    His eyes just looked straight ahead,
    And straight at you.
    He didn’t know your name.
    He didn’t know that that day, you were taking your first breath
    At Saint Vincent’s Hospital
    While he watched the ink dry on his polaroid picture.
    And you didn’t know him.
    But one day, many years after he had died and you had grown up,
    You would find him.
    On a site that hadn’t been invented yet on that day you were born.
    Through a phone that didn’t exist.
    Using an internet that almost nobody knew of.
    But here you are.
    Here you both are.
    Face to face.
    Two people who were never supposed to have met along their parallel lives.
    And perhaps…one day…after you yourself have gone,
    you both will meet again.
    What a strange, and beautiful synchronicity is life.

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  • From Pavel on 08-04-97

    This was the day that i was born, it’s hard to see some one grasping death the day that you embraced it.
    Blessings where ever you are Jamie.

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  • From Justin Zagri on 10-24-97

    The day before he died was my 13th birthday. It really puts things in perspective. Jamie was an editor, and I am an editor. I don’t know what else to really say, other than he literally cherished every moment of his life. Thank you for sharing, Jamie.

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  • From abiam solano on 07-03-84

    I was born that day. Yaaaay!!

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  • From Jennuh Frey on 07-01-93

    Day I was born as well

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  • From Tamara on 10-01-97

    On this day at 10 o’ clock I was born. You feel so small when you realise that the day you were born, seeing for the first time the world, someone on the other side of the world was suffering from cancer, but enjoying his last days with his friends. Your story is just one of over 7.5 billion and although every single one is unique. You and what you do, make the world’s history complete and this man captured his life in some wonderful photos which show the good and bad sides of everybody’s life. This man did great work and shared his own personal story with everybody, this is just amazing.

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  • From Gregory Cooper on 12-25-83

    I was born this day. 🙂

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  • From Gregory Cooper on 12-26-83

    I was also born this day 🙂

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  • From Daniel on 07-20-94

    The day of my birth as well, it’s super cool to see how the world was doing that day

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  • From Nick Aguilera on 01-28-82

    I was born in this day 35 years ago

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  • From chauncey tomlinson on 04-23-89

    the day I was born lets go mets he will be missed R.I.P

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  • From Ricardo E. Guerra on 10-09-96

    Very interesting. On this day over 20 years ago, I was born far far away from this magical city, on a fantastical island called Cuba, while a man was reading about tricky old Bill in the paper. The serendipity of life!

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  • From Samantha Thomas on 10-22-96

    This is the day I was born. So interesting to see what else was going on in the world that day

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  • From Natalie on 09-14-89

    Also my birthday! Seems to be a bit fitting. 😕

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