I was able to find one of the owners of the Community Recognition Award armor set on the Entropia Universe community Facebook page. I sent him a message saying I would be interested in renting it against collateral to take armor set images for this project and linked him this thread. He replied saying he was not interested in renting any of his items regardless of collateral because he didn't play anymore and wanted to quit. He also spoke of how he was "fireselling" his items in a post he made on the page.
I spent 20 minutes looking at recent trades for UL armor sets in the same range of resistance values; Phantom, Bear, Ghoul, Ghost and concluded it was worth somewhere around +2-2.5k or so. I told him I might be interested to buy it, only to take the armor set images and then look for a new home for it because I already have much better armor sets, and mentioned this price range.
He responded very negatively and said I was trying to rob him. I tried to argue my case and he belittled me and said he would never be interested in trading or selling anything to me, told me to have a nice day, and then blocked my Facebook.
Maybe once this project is a bit closer to being complete, if I still can't find any of the other owners of this armor set, the best bet might be to write a petition that MA should assist by giving me a Community Recognition Award set for having worked way too hard on a myriad of community projects for no personal gain.