I approve.
Once I was asked to submit a photo of myself to a place where I was going to be working. In that line of work, it’s common to create photographic rosters for groups of individuals, and they clearly wanted a professional photo, though the request wasn’t that explicit. I submitted a legitimate, professional, current (at the time) photo of myself, but what I really wanted to do was to send a copy of my first grade school photo instead. I like that one 'cause my hair was a little mussed, and I was wearing a T-shirt with Cookie Monster in space.
Then I decided that what would be even better is if we were allowed to choose one photo of ourselves from any time in our lives to be part of our official IDs, badges, etc., because that’s absolutely the photo I would choose.