Welcome to AYIMP
This is the strangest photo sharing site you’ve ever seen. Everyone is in someone else’s photos without even knowing it, and this is the place to find these unexpected connections. Is that you in the background of a stranger’s photo taken at Disney World? Is a long-forgotten classmate finding herself in your First Grade picture? You can also share old pictures of ancestors in our genealogy photos section. Surprises. Nostalgia. Memories. It’s all here. And it’s FREE.
Join the photographic treasure hunt and post your own photos for other people to search through. And have a look at the other things to do on this page, including photo contests with prizes.
Photo Of The Day
Our First Match!
A Familiar Face in a Stranger’s Faded WWII Photo
We created this site thinking that it would take thousands of people joining in this photographic “scavenger hunt” for someone to see himself in a stranger’s picture. Imagine our shock when the first connection was our very own father, T. E. Foreman, in a picture taken on a remote island more than 60 years ago. The picture came from Ed Sidorski, who shared his collection of World War II photos that included many taken on Umnak Island in the Aleutians. The picture was a slightly blurred image of two men in a camp kitchen, one of them clowning with a dishtowel while the other one looked at the camera. That other man, standing in a pose that we would have recognized anywhere, was our father. It turned out that Ed remembered him but never knew his name. Our dad shows up in another of his pictures, titled “I called this man Cookie.” The kitchen photo is titled “A Startling Connection” and was posted by kaforeman on behalf of Mr. Sidorski. Both pictures are in the World War II photos section. We only wish our dad had lived long enough to see these!
Have you made a connection with a stranger’s photo on this site? Click here to send us an email telling us about it.
Contest Winner:
"Dancing at the Music Festival" won our recent contest: Best Summer Vacation Photo. Congratulations to "katie laurel" on winning a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate! Stay tuned for more contests!
