When conscription was reintroduced, it was encouraged to send some 'fun' photos back home. It both helped the conscripts to bond as a group and to show those back home it was all not that bad.
In fact, we still continued this tradition over here when I did my military service in 1990. My photos are worse
I have been picking up these 'fun photos' for several years now. Intention is to do a photo book on them some time.
Here are some other guys who dislike photographers.