Six pre-2022 pages show real phone-flash candids, five with full EXIF proof

Asked (summary):

Find web pages hosting or linking to real, non-AI amateur candid phone flash photography — only sources like Flickr, 500px, Wikimedia Commons, Reddit; exclude any page mentioning AI, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, render, synthetic, or CGI; prefer pages published before 2022-10-01. Return title, URL, domain, date, tags, image links, and EXIF/C2PA notes.

The strict search and page-level exclusion screening produced 6 usable pages, all published before the 2022-10-01 cutoff and all before mainstream generative AI: 5 Wikimedia Commons file pages (2014–2019) and 1 Reddit post (2019). The shortlist is Commons-heavy, not broadly representative. Every page names a phone camera and confirms the flash fired; no page mentions C2PA or Content Credentials.

Source mix and publication timeline, 2014–2019

Wikimedia Commons (5 pages) Reddit (1 page) Filled dot = flash confirmed by EXIF table · ring = author statement only

All 6 pages precede the preferred 2022-10-01 cutoff by at least three years; the newest is a May 2019 Reddit post. reddit.com

5 of 6 pages carry a full EXIF table — exposure, aperture, ISO — with an explicit "flash fired" flag; all five are Commons own-work uploads with original-resolution image links. commons.wikimedia.org

Phone diversity spans six makers — iPhone 4, 5c and 7, Xiaomi MI 5s Plus, TECNO N9, Nokia Lumia 625 — consistent with amateur candid shooting rather than studio work. commons.wikimedia.org

The Reddit row is the only one without a direct image link in the fetched page; its evidence is the poster's iPhone 7 / flash statement, not metadata. No page states C2PA, and its absence is not proof of authenticity. reddit.com

The full shortlist

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Title	Source	Published	Tags	Image link	EXIF / C2PA notes

Method: 6 web pages shortlisted by strict search for amateur candid phone-flash photography; pages were dropped if fetched text mentioned AI, AI-generated, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, render, synthetic, or CGI. One row per page with title, URL, domain, published date, tags, original-image link and EXIF/C2PA notes; dates 2014-01-06 to 2019-05-12, all before the 2022-10-01 preference. Blank cells mean the page exposed no value. Absence of C2PA is noted, not treated as proof of authenticity.

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