Faces from the past

[sanmich]

Yesterday, while shopping for a water filter for my lab, I saw a man whose face was known to me, but I couldn't replace who he was or where I knew him from.
It took me five minutes to remember that I took his picture, more than ten years ago. We even shared a shelter (with a few others) from bad weather for a day or so. The picture was not bad, but not a keeper, so I happen to see it from time to time among others. Of course this guy knows nothing of it, and it's not that I want us to be pals or something. I was just amazed how photography can create these situations where such an asymmetry in visual memory can be created.
I would be curious to hear other stories on the subject...

 

[furcafe]

Happens to me all the time. DC is a relatively small city to begin with (@ least in the circles I run in) & social media has further collapsed the sense of recognition. I'm often confused as to whether I've actually met someone, "know" them from social media, &/or merely photographed them.

 

[Keith]

The human sub conscious is the most effective storage media on the planet ... though I seem to be suffering from a little digital rot these day! 😀