Man takes polaroid everyday for 18 years until his death

Crispin

This website catalogues over 6000 photos by a photographer who took a polaroid everyday for 18 years until his sudden death from cancer. Quite an amazing story in photos. Linky below:

http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/

I don't know whether this has been posted before but I hadn't seen it until today

Borderfox

Hadnt seen that, very sad near the end. Nearly feels voyeuristic to look...

Crispin

Borderfox wrote: »

Hadnt seen that, very sad near the end. Nearly feels voyeuristic to look...

Yeh I agree, moving pictures towards the end. Made me think.

dazftw

Thanks!

coolmoose

thanks for the link. pretty moving towards the end alright.

hoganpoly

great idea ,sad at the end but id like to do this ,he must have scanned every photo as well

Crispin

hoganpoly wrote: »

great idea ,sad at the end but id like to do this ,he must have scanned every photo as well

His family scanned them and put the website together I think.

sNarah

Man, flicking through that - you just really hope the story doens't end!
I suppose it's a sort of equivalent of what some Boardies are doing on the 365 project, he seemed to enjoy his life greatly looking through them. It does feel very voyeuristic though!

I presume his family have scanned the pictures.
Edit His friends did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Livingston

AnimalRights

sNarah wrote: »

I suppose it's a sort of equivalent of what some Boardies are doing on the 365 project,

Way to put the mockers on our boardsies.

Diabhal_Glas

Amazing to be able to kind of flick through his life like that, and yeah the end is sad.
But it gives me an elbow in the side to really go out there and enjoy every day aswell.

D'Agger

Very sad ending alright has to be said, looked to have lived a very full life though.

Cheers for the link

storm2811

Ohh,I'll have to find some time to look through all of those,some beautiful pics on there.

NapoleonInRags

That's really moving. He died on his birthday too.

The Snipe

Very interesting, I'm going to have to look at them all over the coming weeks.

Cheers for the link.

Crispin

NapoleonInRags wrote: »

That's really moving. He died on his birthday too.

Hadn't spotted that :O

Scamp-

That's so sad. The last picture is very unsettling.

Ghost Train

Great discipline to keep doing it.

pullandbang

It's a fantastic personal record, especially if there is some text to go with each pic. Very sad at the end but it's an amazing social record and I doubt if there are many more like it in the world. Certainly food for thought.......

Chorcai

He took some really nice photos. What a great momento to leave behind. Anyone else look for a photo he took on their birthday ? Mine was in May'80.

tracert

Chorcai wrote: »

He took some really nice photos. What a great momento to leave behind. Anyone else look for a photo he took on their birthday ? Mine was in May'80.

Looked every year on my birthday, mainly just cause it's in Jan. I'll have to look through it from start to finish some day. Some very imaginative subjects in them, even when the photo's just a shot of friends.

StraddleFor6

Chorcai wrote: »

He took some really nice photos. What a great momento to leave behind. Anyone else look for a photo he took on their birthday ? Mine was in May'80.

Ah, cool. The day I was born is a picture from Vegas. I've been there three times. Its a sign. I'm destined for wealth.


*Or a long hard life chasing an impossible dream.

D'Agger

StraddleFor6 wrote: »

Ah, cool. The day I was born is a picture from Vegas. I've been there three times. Its a sign. I'm destined for wealth.

Or a shotgun wedding...either way you'll get laid