Have a look through your photos and see just how many strangers are in them; especially photos taken in public places. There are people walking past; people in the background and even up close and personal who are complete strangers. Now, have you ever thought just how many strangers’ photos you are in – some probably framed on walls or on top of fireplaces. Your face is framed in the bedrooms and living rooms of people you have never, and will never meet. You don’t know these people from a bar of soap yet they have your photo on their wall and in their photo album. There’s also a chance you’ve been inadvertently added to a personalized photo gift from someone you don’t know to someone else you don’t know. How weird is that? There may be calendars, cushions, greetings cards and tea coasters with your face on it in the homes of complete strangers.

Your image has likely made it overseas too – to a Japanese dining room, a German hallway, and an outhouse in Papua New Guinea.

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