Photographer Tries to Find 'Kissing Couple' from His Photo 50 Years Later

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A photographer has shared his 50-year-old photo of a mystery couple who were kissing their way around Canada, in a bid to find the duo.

Photographer Tries to Find ‘Kissing Couple’ from His Photo 50 Years LaterA photographer has shared his 50-year-old photo of a mystery couple who were kissing their way around Canada in a bid to find the duo.was a student taking photographs in Gastown in Vancouver, Canada when he stumbled upon a young couple who were selling kisses to fund their travels around the country.

The pair were holding handmade signs that read “Help. Trying to get home to New Brunswick” and they were offering kisses for 25 cents, which is around the value of $2 today. Photographer and lawyer Pope took a photo of the couple with his Pentax SP500 and now, fifty years later, he is trying to identify the pair in the photograph and find out what happened to them., the original photographs remained among Pope’s collections of slides that he took in Vancouver and the images stayed there for several decades.

However in 2015, Pope had his slides digitized. But it was only recently when he edited the photographs he took of the couple that he became fascinated by their story.Time Colonist . “Once I got to that point, I thought wouldn’t it be neat to see if I could find out who these two were.”

 

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Okay, i step forward. It was me. I’m on death row for the last 20 years, no visitors allowed. The missus? She’s the reason i’m here after the kissing event eventually spiralled out of control. Thanks for looking me up though, the camera dude never paid a single dime.

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