There’s a fervour for found photos taking place around the world. People are rummaging at garage sales, flea markets and online stores to find other people’s discarded photos. The more ordinary the better. It represents an appreciation for the everyday, the imperfect, for the inbetween times - essentially human moments. Since we all started using digital cameras, few images make it to paper, and fewer still to the library, thanks to in-camera editing.

Maybe we should again pick up our film cameras. Slow Poke Mark Lawrence reckons: ‘The patience-teaching, deliberate activity of taking photographs on film, having them developed and sorting, storing and admiring the prints can still be enriching – even if all it does is get us to slow down.’

Have a look at other people’s photos: Look at Me is a public photo album of anonymous, found photos; Melbourne artist Susan Fereday has ‘been collecting vernacular photographs of uncertain origin, and re-presenting them to privilege new meaning.’ Other People’s Pictures is an ace documentary on the subject, and Snapatorium is an online store.

It might inspire you to keep and print more photos. Or to develop a penchant for snippets of stranger’s lives.