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 Ashley on 12-08-93

    I was born on this day.

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  • From Heather wright on 06-23-94

    This was my date of birth. I just turned 23 today.

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  • From Jenny on 02-19-93

    I was born this day in Baltimore!

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  • From Jenny on 11-03-90

    My parents were married this day in Philadelphia PA, so only a couple hours away from New York City. Always talked about how unseasonably warm it was and you can see that in this picture.

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  • From Sarah Turner on 01-20-97

    πŸ’›πŸ’™πŸ’šπŸ’œ

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  • From Sarah Turner on 12-27-79

    I was born on this day. The sky was blurry in Australia too…πŸ’›πŸ’™πŸ’šπŸ’œ

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  • From Cris Estephan on 01-07-97

    My birthday.

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  • From Nicki on 06-19-81

    They were doing this the day and year I was born πŸ˜‰

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  • From Sean on 06-03-96

    This was the day my first baby boy was born. The park ranger seems to have the praying hands pose I had most of the day too.

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  • From Sean on 08-28-94

    My last birthday as a single man! They’ve all been better ever since then.

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  • From Sean on 09-10-94

    This was the day I got married to my beautiful wife. It’s fantastic to think that Jamie had his camera pointed at someone else dressed in white that day!

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  • From Dolly on 06-18-96

    The day I was born. πŸ™‚

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  • From No one on 03-20-91

    I fell like he relaxing … but the sad story that I call my life started that day.

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    • From Simon Gale on 03-20-91

      My wife was born on this day.
      Be the change in the sad story. Much love my friend.

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  • From No one on 01-09-89

    My brothers birthday. He’s battling demons.now it hurts my heart everyday

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    • From Some one else on 01-09-89

      This my birthday also. I’ve recently just come out of a medical boot after tearing my Achilles tendon. My girlfriend also left me during this period. I know it doesnt mean much in the grand scheme of things, but tell your bro to hang on in there. We can be stronger than our demons if we put up a fight.

      Love the nonchalant cool this pic has.

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  • From Jamie B. on 09-11-79

    This is the photo from the day my husband was born, he’s terrified of bikes bc he was hit by a car on one when he was young. Very syncronistic maybe this photo will help encourage him to ride again, life is so short after all

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  • 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 πŸ™‚

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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! πŸ™‚

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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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