15 Awkward Family Photos That Should Have Stayed Private

We tend to keep all of our pictures digitally these days. We have them backed up on hard drives and we often thumb through them on our phones, but it wasn’t all that long ago that things were different.

Just a few decades ago, if you wanted to look at family pictures, you had to dig out the old family album. Some of those pictures really sparked a lot of nostalgia but others were perhaps better left out of the album altogether.

Admittedly, getting the entire family together for a photograph is a little more than most of us would have bargained for. Then again, if we do get them together, it’s not necessarily going to make a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

Take a look down through these 15 photographs and you will see just how awkward those family pictures can be.

1. Santa and the clown?

2. Are they angry with each other?

3. Stop looking at me

4. Would someone please have dad turn around?

5. Nothing is better than a fun Easter picture

6. Would somebody please look at the camera?

7. Timing is everything

8. No pointing

9. The 90s were a fun time to be alive

10. Somebody isn’t happy

11. Things don’t always go as expected

12. It’s not always a picture-perfect moment

13. Maybe you should try finding some shade

14. The wind is not always your friend

15. What’s wrong with mom?