Photographer Tracks Down People He Snapped in His Hometown Almost 40 Years Ago (opens in new tab)

Flickr has on occasion been used for those purposes. Typically someone will set-up a group with a specific purpose. Search for some groups, ask them some questions. The users/members tend to be very helpful, in most cases.

It's probably a little simpler than that. My guess is that, in the 2 pictures, the boys were friends and the girls were girlfriends of the boys.

It's also likely that one of the friends saw the photographer's advert and between them only had contact details for the other men. I doubt it's possible to extrapolate much as there were plenty of women in the other photos.

I noticed that as well, but only in groups that are mainly men. I immediately wondered if it was the effect of (unconscious, presumably) bias on the photographer's part – i.e. that in a photo of a group of male friends, the women are decorative or less essential somehow. Another explanation is that the guys all knew each other well while they only knew the girls in the photos in passing, making them harder to track down. But the photographer managed to track down so many other people, that hardly seems to explain it.

Its still done like that in South Africa. A fish chain here prints fake newspaper onto their packaging which wraps the fish.

Colonial habits die hard ;)

I don't think it's just that town, it's the world!