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This is very recent, however this does feel like a picture future generations should see.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
-- John Abernathy
History is what we make it, by the time you read this reply it will already be the past.
Even in my professional experience as an archaeologist there's a lot of scholary debate on when something becomes historic or archaeological. There's many that do support that definition to simply be anything that is not the present in the most literal sense.
This is to avoid the bias of arbitrarily setting when history begins.
Hope this makes sense it's a bit late here and I'm not gonna lie I'm a bit worn out from reading reports
History is here used in reference to events which took place a considerable amount of time in the past. Yesterday is not history by this common usage; the title of HistoryPhotos uses this very common and widely understood connotation of the term 'history'.
Right but the issue is when that line is arbitrarily drawn. For example think back to Covid. We can't argue it wasn't a significant event, but at this point the pandemic and it's restrictions are in the past. That's a period of time people remember, but it's not a daily part of life. Sure the disease still exists, but the mass testing sites, mandatory masking, the empty towns, etc. are all things of the past.
And yet that began only a little less than 6 years ago. I would argue that period fits many of the criteria of a historic event, even if it was so recent.
Anyway, I'm not even saying all of this to change your policy. I've just always found it an interesting piece of theory. There are plenty of other communities where one can go to see recent images. I just like discussing how we view and define history. Especially when it comes to assigning an arbitrary cutoff