Awkward Family Photos
|Personally, I think it’s difficult for family photos to not be a bit stilted and weird, but Awkward Family Photos manages to post truly baffling images of badly dressed, strangely posed, and generally weird-looking clans as they wish to be remembered.
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Sonya said | 23 May, 2009
This is fantastic, I’m sure I could find a few of my own awkward family pics.
royal creme said | 27 May, 2009
I feel as if these images are from episodes of Snapped…
sarah said | 28 May, 2009
weird! i have that same top picture as a joke on my bookshelf at home but it’s mark wahlberg & marg helgenberger http://www.cthb.org/pics/misc/80schild.jpg anyone know where the celeb one is from? they obviously used this awkward family photo as a template.
Rick said | 29 September, 2010
There’s a new website Awkward School Pictures: http://www.awkwardschoolpictures.com
If you like awkward, check-it-out.
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Jorrit said | 22 May, 2009
Haha funny. I’ve just posted yesterday about this site and used the same picture
http://blocter.com/index.php/2009/05/awkward-family-photos/