[paulluuk]

They're not exactly "relatively uncommon or cryptic"

[a3w]

> This project is designed to showcase the first known photographs of living specimens of any species.

Where does it say they need to be rare?

[paulluuk]

From the page linked:

> First photographic records of already described (but obviously relatively uncommon or cryptic) species

[amanaplanacanal]

Humans have been photographed before and are therefore out of scope.

[gertlex]

They're more specifically out of scope because the first person to ever photograph+publish a picture of a human (which would fit the upload rules as I read it), is long since deceased ;)

(I'm sure someone on here could point us to which photo this would be, though!)

[alnwlsn]

It seems to be this one taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograp...