Ross Scrivener, a web developer, created the site 365project.com in early 2009 to bring together people who, like him, document their lives daily on the Internet. Every day, users on the site post a picture capturing a special moment in their day, along with a short text, and share it with the 100,000 other members, who can choose to follow other members’ activities, comment on their photos, and mark them as favorites.

The Internet has also allowed users to discover the photography journal kept by Jamie Livingston. Starting in 1979, he took a pictures of himself every day using an SX 70 until his death in 1997. Two friends recovered more than 6000 polaroids carefully arranged in suitcases, scanned them and put them online. All of the images are dated and appear chronologically. We follow 18 years of this man’s life, seeing joyful moments and unknown faces. We grow up with him as we browse year after year through his pictures. It’s emotional to follow the last month’s of Jamie’s life. The final image is a self-portrait taken on his hospital bed as he lay dying of a brain tumor, fifteen years ago.

Pauline Auzou