Jamie Livingstone's daily Polaroid collection is incredible. Just the number of them is amazing; while some have gone missing, 6,697 remain in the collection. Livingstone, born in 1956, was a New York photographer, film-maker and circus performer who decided in 1979 to take a random or not so random Polaroid every day to document his existence.
The photos are of friends, family, babies, strangers, graffiti, meals, landscapes; everything and anything that Livingstone came across.
Towards the end of the collection, many of the photos are taken in hospitals as Livingstone battled terminal cancer. They are of him and his friends, flowers, the engagement ring he proposed to his fiance (and then wife) with, tubes, drips and all kinds of simple and heart-breaking images he saw until his death.
Livingstone's friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid collected the photos and organised an exhibition of them so that others could share the funny, silly, sweet, odd and sad photos that tell almost an entire life story.
See all the remaining images at
photooftheday.com.