The fall of family pictures?
Posted by Holmes221bBSt@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 111 comments
So I was raised by a boomer and grew up with family photos everywhere in my home. The walls, multiple tables, china cabinets, etc…. Our family history documented, frozen in time and displayed amongst various corners of our home. You could track our milestones, vacations, and embarrassing candids throughout our lives.
However, I have notice that my own cohort of friends no longer engage in this practice. None of my friends have any family photos displayed in their home & if they do, it’s only very few professional photos. My home however has a photo table and multiple photo walls. We even order large family vacations collages to hang up. My husband was actually concerned we came off as narcissistic displaying so many photos, since we noticed our friends do nothing of the sort. Has the practice of displaying family photos died with us? Do any of you all still proudly display your photos around your house?
Photo-Unicorn-2006@reddit
Still going strong in our house 🙋♀️Growing up, my parents’ walls and shelves were basically a museum of our family’s life and I’ve kept that tradition going. Our walls and shelves are a mix of photo walls, coffee table books from past trips, and our annual custom family calendar (it’s kind of “our thing” now). Lately we’ve been obsessed with acrylic blocks as they just make the photos pop, and the grandparents rave about them every time they visit. Most of ours are from Mixbook because it’s easy to design together as a family, even when we’re in different places. It’s been an easy way to keep our home feeling like us, even as everything else goes digital.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
Oooo I have to check those out
belunos@reddit
I don't have any kids.. having photos up of just my wife and myself would feel.. weird
L_wanderlust@reddit
Do you do Xmas cards with pics of yourselves? I’ve given the same reasoning for why I don’t send holiday cards - no kids and do people really want to see pics of my spouse and me (and doggo)?
bluev0lta@reddit
I mean, I do :) I’m always happy to see friends’ and family’s kids, but I’m just as happy to see a family member/friend and their partner and pets. I still have a Christmas card up on my fridge from last year that prominently features my aunt’s many cats (plus her and her husband). I love it!
xtlhogciao@reddit
I don’t have a wife or kids. I still have the Bill and Ted and Led Zeppelin posters from hs above my couch and the novelization of “Over the Top” on my coffee table.
agentmkultra666@reddit
Over the Top, what a film.
belunos@reddit
Woah there buddy, I said I didn't have photos up, but I still have an original Snake Eyes and Stormshadow on the wall
Sharp_Reputation3064@reddit
We don't have kids. We are in the process of replacing our 10 photo wedding collage wall with a 12 photo 10th anniversary trip collage wall. Just us.
We also have photos of us with our nieces, nephews, siblings and friends. And a collage wall of both sides of the family including back a few generations.
TalkingIsNotMyThing@reddit
I don't do it, because I have my TV set to show photos as a screensaver and other displays around the house too. Before that, my I had some photos, bit my parents, who are Boomers and who I live with, hate it.
lproc@reddit
I’m a family photographer. It’s because back in the day when you went to go get portrairs they handed you physical photos. Nowadays we do everything digitally and people don’t always actually order prints to hang up.
ma3nads@reddit
I love looking at family photos in people’s homes! I don’t think it makes you come off as narcissistic at all. The reason people don’t do it anymore is that they don’t print out photos, they just post them digitally online.
NoFlounder1566@reddit
I want printed photos. But I am tired of the "pay before you pick up" and then I go to pick up and they insist they don't have my photos.
Now I have to find the kiosks to print and only Walmart has it near us.
Then I realize that I don't take photos as much because I font want to interrupt our fun and conversations to take photos. No one likes the way they look and everyone is self conscious.
twirlerina024@reddit
One of my cousins is super organized and goes through Shutterfly (or similar) to make a book for all their big vacations. She also has a few big prints made to put on the wall. Everyone else I know has either nothing, or a digital photo frame scrolling through snapshots. I don't think she's a narcissist but I'm kind of jealous that she's able to get projects done in a timely manner!
rianpie@reddit
I got overwhelmed with my digital photo collection, so I decided to create year-by-year photo albums on Shutterfly. They’re on a shelf in my living room. If we start talking about a vacation or something, I can pull out the album from that year. I like knowing they’re available for my grown kids since if something happens to me they’re unlikely to dig through my old hard drives for their childhood photos.
sneaky_pigeon@reddit
I do this but as a yearly calendar and match the photos to the month. It is so fun to be able to look through the calendars and see what we were doing this time last year, or in previous years. The number of trips etc that you forget about is kind of crazy!
CuriousRiver2558@reddit
I love this. I love when the “memories” that pop up on my socials. I forget all the good times!
ThePicassoGiraffe@reddit
I do this too, except special vacations get their own album separate from the "yearbook"
redditshy@reddit
lmao!
BridgeBeautiful5478@reddit
I am your cousin!
ellevolta@reddit
We have a bunch of Instax / Polaroids / film prints of friends and family (we don’t have kiddos) that we put in a big bowl in the center of our dining room table for this reason. Casual photos that aren’t fussy seem to be a great convo starter and warms people up for me taking instant photos of them.
sleepy_unicorn40@reddit
I do this for my kids. Every NYE, I give them a present to open and it's their year in review of pictures! Granted I'm a year behind so for NYE this year they will get their 2024 pictures. But we spend time as a family to look through their picture books and they have something smaller to take with them when they are off living their lives.
My childhood photo albums and family pictures have all been destroyed. I have like a handle of them.
Creative-Tomatillo@reddit
I love having photos of our families everywhere. They remind me of good times and many people I’ve loved and are now gone.
Plane_Chance863@reddit
Our front entrance has pictures of our kids, our parents, and our wedding photo. The kids' photos are dated and we're looking to do new posed photos, but we haven't done so yet.
I'd say because we no longer need to get photos printed to see what they look like, we don't go out of our way to get them printed, and that's where we're at. Though, saying this, surely there are places online you can upload photos for printing and have them delivered to your door? I need to look into this. We need more recent photos.
Simple-Chemistry-878@reddit
I personally hate family pictures because it only shows a facade, the perfect family picture, it doesn't show the reality of what happens behind the scenes... indotn want to be a hypocrite. But ill gladly put a picture of kiddo even those hates it
CuriousRiver2558@reddit
In your house, you can do whatever. Doesn’t have to be a stiff pose. Could be a candid!
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
Although I get what you’re saying as it has crossed my mind, if think these happy pics remind us of good things. As humans, it’s so easy to see the negatives and the bad parts to things. We deal with stressors everyday. Pics of good memories are a little break from that. It reminds us of the good things we forget. Of course I’m excluding overbearing parents and influencer families who force it
CuriousRiver2558@reddit
We have framed snapshot “portraits” of our family. We try to get one every few years as a refresh. I use an app that handles the printing and framing then ships it to my house. Also super handy to send gifts. But I should print more and put them in a memory book.
elpintor91@reddit
I notice people aren’t hanging up ANY photo frames anymore. Their new homes are very open and grey with maybe some plants here and there but nothing on the walls. If they’re any photos that make it to a wall, they are a canvas style and very curated/artsy. No more aunt sally, uncle Johnny, or grandma Jill allowed.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
Yeah I’ve noticed too. I get some people prefer nice decor which is totally fine, I like it too, but I prefer to have unique non assembly line stuff which is hard to find. It’s also much more expensive so I like having lots of framed pictures up instead
harrilal@reddit
We have 3 spots on the walls.
1 spot has our kids as babies.
1 spot has our wedding photos.
1 spot has an assortment of family photos.
It is way less than what my mum or grandparents had (they just framed up everything ever), but it isn't nothing.
LaoghaireElgin@reddit
I grew up with much the same. My grandparent's hallway was covered in family photos and so was their bedroom. I used to have pics of my kids on display on the my buffet in the entry way and was told they were so out of style and stupid.
I've just remodeled my bedroom and living/office and have no family pictures up. My kids hate them, my husband would rather have bare walls covered in holes and I don't mind.
DontBuyAHorse@reddit
We've got two kids and I'm close with my family so between us and my brother and his kids, there Are lots of school and family pictures to be had. We usually print a few of our favorites every year for the holidays and give them to family. We frame a couple and put them on the upstairs walls in our house.
I feel like most people I know with kids have lots of pictures.
NorraVavare@reddit
Its a pain in the ass to get prints now. We used to drive up to the photo booth, drop off the roll, and a week later pick up photos. Now you gotta pick the shots you want, figure out which service, upload them, figure out the sizes, go find your credit card, remember to actually order them... and its not a mystery anymore. You know exactly what you're getting. Where is the fun in that?
That said, there is a shelf in my kitchen with family photos of all 4 families extending from my grandparents. And a few of my favorite candid shots are randomly in the house. I also have a big box of old film printed photos to hunt thru.
kissassforliving@reddit
I drove by a roadside memorial yesterday and noticed a large picture that was a selfie. The phone was in the picture since it was taken with the phone pointed at the mirror. I think we have reached the point that we only take selfies. Maybe we just need to gather the selfies and share them with the family.
Also, print shops are hard to find and home photo printers are terrible.
LLPhotog@reddit
FWIW there are a zillion print shops that take online orders and will ship to you! Shutterfly is one example.
DollaStoreKardashian@reddit
Print shops are hard to find? What?!
Walgreens, Rite Aid, and CVS still print photos for less than a dollar, and I feel like there’s one on every corner.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
Yup. After every summer vacation, we choose our favorite photos and have them printed at Walgreens. We also use Shutterfly to make a big poster collage
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
Yup. After every summer vacation, we choose our favorite photos and have them printed at Walgreens. We also use Shutterfly to make a big poster collage
kissassforliving@reddit
Must be where I live. More rural for sure.
janellthegreat@reddit
When you are invited into my home you are invited into my life. My life includes a history of children, so my walls celebrate the highlights of their growth. Also, I also hang up my college diploma.
I don't have much of my own family history and that is primarily because my husband doesn't have similar documentation history. It feels imbalanced to hang pictures of my childhood and have none of his. I do have a few bits of my childhood art here and there.
FinallyKat@reddit
We have mostly art in our living room, but all others are fair game for family photos. We don't have children, and we aren't big on pics of ourselves, but our neice and nephews, family, and friends are all around.
I always hated the switch to digital because I forsaw the lack of printing and living surrounded by memories. My best friend couldn't bring herself to delete Any photos of her son (even blurry, copies, or awfully lit ones) and she quickly became overwhelmed with thousands of images.
Who has the time or desire to swipe through all those? They become wasted data that doesn't get viewed or discovered again.
I say plaster the walls, cover all surfaces if you have them. Oh, and make backups stored offline of the best digital.
VicMackeyLKN@reddit
Born 79, consider myself gen x, literally zero family pictures on the walls, love my family, just don’t need pictures of them all over my walls
roonilwonwonweasly@reddit
Not in my house. No professional photos but we have tons of photos of all of us all around. If someone thinks we're narcissistic for it they can choose to not come over
pink_faerie_kitten@reddit
My sister (GenX) makes sure to print out a lot of her photos with (I think) Walgreens. Her fridge is literally covered in pics of her family. She also orders them as magnets. And her step daughters (millennials) always print out a family calendar and they even do tee shirts with photos.
I personally have old candids of my loved ones and me as a baby tucked in my mirror and I have framed photos of my cats. I also have used Shutterfly for prints and a photo album. I don't remember very often tho. It's something I wish I did more often. I loooooved going thru shoeboxes of photos when I was a kid and I think it helped cement childhood memories for me. And I loved that my mom had framed professional pictures on the mantel and China cabinet. My mom has a bunch of baby photos of herself and there's nothing like seeing old pics of your parents!
SunshineInDetroit@reddit
not professional ones. Just family pics from vacations.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
Most of ours are vacation pics as well
EdgyEgg2@reddit
My mom never had professional photos taken of us. I think it was a cost thing (not that we couldn’t afford it but more so a waste of money). She also never displayed photos of us in the public rooms of our home. I have never had them taken for my own family either. I have pictures of other people in my family, in our “family room”, but no where else really.
Personally, I find that displaying photos of your family all over is tacky, lacks personality, and is kind of weird.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
May I ask why? Not judging at all. Just genuinely curious. Our pics show our personalities as they are of locations and events that are of interest to us.
EdgyEgg2@reddit
Photographs of family, memories, etc, are personal. No one cares about them other than the people in the photo, and those directly associated with them.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
Sure true, and that’s why it’s in my personal home where we can see and enjoy them in our space. They’re for us, not for guests
BigPoppaStrahd@reddit
Our parents HAD to print up every picture they took, otherwise they’d never see it, then they paid for the development of the photo so they must put it somewhere.
We now walk around with our photo albums in our pockets and on our computers. I still occasionally have some of my favorite pictures printed out and framed. I also have a digital frame, my parents do too.
akela9@reddit
I think it really just depends on the family. My dad's a professional portrait photographer. There are ZERO family photos hanging in my childhood home. I can only think of one pic of a family member (a favorite auntie of his) that's even hanging in the "main" bit of the house and it's tiny and easy to miss. Every wall of his house is a gallery wall, but nothing is dedicated to familial portraiture.
Everything friend/family portrait wise, is in the basement and that space (with very few exceptions, but for example I know one of my senior pics is down there) is reserved for in memoriam when he loses someone. That space used to be his man cave, but he's got a new space so he doesn't even go down there, much, anymore. He's in his 70's and the last elder (to him) member of our family just passed and he's been in a pretty funky head space since then. So many funerals last few years. He's been lamenting for some time that he knows WAY more dead people than alive ones in this season of his life.
Getting older is a treat for us all. I don't mind for myself, so much, but it's tough watching my folks struggle. There's no bracing for the inevitable no matter how hard we try.
After_Preference_885@reddit
My millennial sister hires a photographer several times a year, and her kid is only 2. Before the baby she had family photos with her wife and dogs all over too.
Flashy-Share8186@reddit
I still have quite a few tacked up on my fridge, including a big family Christmas photo!
DariosDentist@reddit
My mom was doing those Shutterfly photobooks every year for the kids and then she got bored with it - I gotta pick up the slack because the family really loves them
cellrdoor2@reddit
Same here, except I do a mixbook every Xmas. All year long I favorite pictures at like and in early December I upload all the pics for the year into a template I made many years ago. I keep the books on the shelf in the living room and it’s nice to look at them sometimes. I see my kids sometimes take one out too.
trexhatespushups42@reddit
My friends with kids regularly do formal photo shoots and have hundreds of pics on their phones. Not sure those ever translate to getting printed and hung, hence the professional shoots!
MoRiSALA@reddit
My hallway wall has a mix of candid photos and professional photos. Other than in the hallway, the only pics are one of our engagement photos and one pic of the kid daycare when he was a year old or so. Those 2 photos are in matching frames in the living room.
Rare_Background8891@reddit
I don’t think it’s weird. I have a friend that has fifty billion photo collages all over. I get that she’s proud of her family. It’s just not my jam. I have a tabletop electronic picture thingy. It rotates through our memories. That’s enough for me.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
I have a digital frame as well. They make excellent gifts
MotoMom77@reddit
I don’t do professional family photos but I have lots of framed pics on the walls. I also have a digital photo frame
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
Yes I’m referring to any photos, not just professional.
MotherofaPickle@reddit
We have the “travel wall” for photos of our travels before kids. I also put together photo books for every family vacation and other reasons.
My husband LOVES photo albums and I am way too lazy to scrapbook, so Shutterfly works nicely. The kids are becoming more photogenic and my photography skills are sharpening, so I think I’m going to have a few photos printed and framed, too.
LyingInPonds@reddit
I'm sorry, "The kids are becoming more photogenic" took me out. 😂
el_barto10@reddit
We have mostly mix tiles on our walls of us, friend vacations, family, and our dogs plus a few older framed photos. My SIl also makes a family calendar each year and that has a bunch of pics.
In the kitchen we have a fridge with a screen and over 600 photos uploaded to that as well.
JenninMiami@reddit
Sears, JC Penney’s and Olan Mills all closed.
PaleoHumulus@reddit
On a related note, a lot of the family portraits that my family and others we knew got in the 1980s and 1990s were done by Olan Mills or similar companies, through our churches. Speaking at least from a small town Midwestern perspective, every church had a printed photo directory, and 1) that doesn't really seem to be a thing anymore, and 2) with the decline in church and other community organization participation, there isn't a consistent venue through which families might get photos taken.
JenninMiami@reddit
I only stopped doing the annual family photo when our local Olan Mills closed around 2010. 😆
Blackbird136@reddit
I’m a solo adult so I don’t, but gosh I feel like everyone else does even more so than when we were kids!
Not so much the whole family being still, posed with hands on each other’s shoulders like we did in the 80s and 90s. But from my feed it sure seems like everyone hires a photog for social media photos for engagements, pregnancy announcements (usually cringey tbh), gender reveals, photo holiday cards, etc.
No-Scar-905@reddit
I'm a solo adult but I've hung up pictures of me with my nieces and nephews. And with friends. Chosen family :)
They aren't necessarily professional but they are posed and not selfies.
Fahlulah@reddit
I have various pics of my kids on the walls and a few smaller ones of other family members in one section. The rest is my kids school art from elementary through middle (oldest starts HS on Wednesday). I have that scattered around the living room walls. At Christmas time, I have their framed Santa photos that I put out. I still make them sit for that one. It's the only picture I want every year. They don't have to keep one. It's for me.
frooootloops@reddit
I wish I didn’t stop getting family photos. Honestly I want to look into JCPenney again, even if we look like goofballs. It’ll be us.
bcentsale@reddit
Senior year of college my flatmates and I went to Sears and did this. It was hilarious, and the staff was awesome. They got right in on the absurdity of it.
frooootloops@reddit
I absolutely love that! I wish I thought of that back then. How cool. Do you still have any of the pictures?
bcentsale@reddit
My wife has them stashed somewhere, and I have scans saved on my network. I'm also still in semi-regular contact with most of the guys, and several years ago we recreated the group portrait, pose and all.
frooootloops@reddit
Ha! That’s awesome. Right on. :)
MeowAbout@reddit
I love collage photo frames and have a bunch of family pics printed through Shutterfly. And now that I’m older, I’ve started getting the tacky souvenir photo every year when we go to the Renaissance festival. I’m sure it has to do with my kid growing up so fast.
MeowAbout@reddit
we do the photo card every year for Christmas too.
Transplanted_Cactus@reddit
I have one picture of my husband and I on display and that's only because it was printed and out in a cardboard holder the same time it was taken (at a company Christmas party). Literally not one other photo anywhere in my house.
It's extra odd because I love photography and I've taken a lot of great photos, I just hated using online services to have them printed so they're just hanging out on my phone or online or on my PC.
Also literally no one has ever taken my photo unless I've explicitly asked them to, aside from when I had them done for pageants in my preteen years, so there's almost no photos of me that aren't selfies and that seems odd to print out and display.
Family photos were never something I had the money to get done.
Massive-Resort-8573@reddit
Ugh! This is another log on the pile of things I hate about the modern homogenization of home decor that HGTV and socials have created. Zero personality all neutrals no character homes.
We absolutely have framed family photos. None are professional. They are snapshot moments of our lives. I love that the collection is always growing.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
I don’t disagree, but I get there are those who disagrees with us and that’s ok. I was just curious to see if this was some kind of trend that started with us and is continuing. I guess so. I miss seeing photo tables though
Bluevanonthestreet@reddit
Professional pictures are expensive, a lot more expensive than they used to be. I don’t begrudge photographers at all but it’s not something a lot of people can routinely afford. I always make sure someone takes a family picture of us at holidays and events. We haven’t had professional pictures in a long time.
Holmes221bBSt@reddit (OP)
I’m not referring to pro photos, just any photos in general. Most our pictures are taken by us
itadapeezas@reddit
I've always hated pictures on walls. Ever since my first apartment I've kept my walls bare with the exception of some decor. But never photos. My son and I disagree heavily on this subject lol. He says my bare home looks ghetto and I say wall pictures are ugly. 😩
MiniRems@reddit
I have a framed photo of my mom & dad, but that's because they got a big triptych one as part of their photo package when they had family pictures done at their church and they didn't have anywhere to put it so gave it to me. I also have a few pictures of friend and favorite cousins, and my favorite great aunt who passed away almost 20 years now.
Never got around to ordering wedding photos (Vegas chapel) so there's no wedding photos up. I've lost 65 pounds since then, though, so I'm kind of okay with this. Maybe we'll go back for our 25th anniversary.
We just took a trip to Maine, and a kind stranger took some really good pictures of us in Acadia Natl Park: I'm planning to get one printed and get a shadow box frame to include the rocks and seashells and other things from the trip.
My Google hub & TV are set up as digital frames for pictures of my cats.
GorillaMonsoonGirl@reddit
lol my walls are covered with the worst of the worst live, laugh, love signs you can find. They make me and my family laugh and that’s the most important thing to me.
Character_Bend_5824@reddit
Everything in a given present day lifestyle is a symptom of the times. If the times don't push a certain trend by necessity, we don't do it. New technologies take over. Work from home wasn't an option when the office buildings were built. Streaming wasn't an option when record stores filled our shelves with CDs. In the post-war years, families would throw a party essentially to share their vacation slides or, later, to play their vacation video. Nowadays, this sharing is spewed upon the family and friends via Facebook or Instagram and each invitee to this sharing can choose to ignore or engage in their joy. So, that covers the notion of forcing albums upon visitors. But hung framed photos? I wouldn't say it's in poor taste or outdated. But a gesture should be made to celebrate all those in your life. Not just immediate family.
WaxWorkKnight@reddit
We have photos up all over, but I have friends who don't. I have notice the ones without kids or pets they treat are their fur children, tend to have little or no photos on their walls.
lsp2005@reddit
We have large portraits of our kids made out of legos on the wall. We also have their first birthday professional photos, and one photo of the four of us from a family wedding. On a few tables we have some candid photos in frames.
idkidc9876@reddit
We have lots of framed photos on our walls and on our end tables. They’re not all professional photos but some are. Others are candids and school pics. I feel like we’re definitely in the minority. Most people we know don’t have photos up. But I love them. I look at them often as I’m walking around the house.
opinionatedhugger@reddit
My husband doesn't have any pictures of family or friends up. We have a collage of the two of us and I have photos of my friends on one wall. So I still occasionally print and hang but yeah, most pics are scrollable now.
GhostKingHoney@reddit
My gf loves photos and has pictures of us, her family her friends framed and sat/hung in every room of her house
I'm the opposite. I don't like photos. I particularly hate photos of myself. So I have none in my house.
She keeps giving me them and they go straight into a drawer.
upnytonc@reddit
On my walls I have various art work. Some prints from local artists, some from Target, some nature photography my husband took. Photos of my only kid and wedding photos/ family photos are displayed on the mantle, buffet, sofa table and small entry way table.
twirlerina024@reddit
My parents got professional photos of the kids every year for Christmas cards, but never of themselves. At my house now we just have one wedding picture, and our boarding photo when we took the dogs on the Bow-Wow Brunch Cruise. If I had kids I'd probably have pictures of them up. I do have all the nieces' and nephews' school pictures on the fridge.
Themightytiny07@reddit
We all have cameras on us all the time and thousands of photos on those phones. But people don't print them anymore. I love photos and have them all over my walls. But I take the time to print them. In my thank you cards for my wedding I printed photos for everyone. And people were so grateful. A friend when she got married a couple years ago did the same, because she appreciated it so much from my wedding. My mom got professional photos of myself and my sister every year, and we continued the tradition into adulthood. Until we moved 6 hours apart. We got photos done in 2020 (yes we have a mask photo lol) and mom has asked us to do it again when we can.
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
I don’t have many up, just a few framed photos on the built-ins. My brother has a whole wall of blown up family prints on hexagons though, it looks pretty good.
ihatecatboys@reddit
I have them contained to one room, and as a solo adult its more of a look back at 5 generations of family than anything. My office has a large library wall that is loaded with family photos going back to tintypes.
PetMonsterGuy@reddit
A combination of things: everyone has every photo they’ve taken for the past ten years on their phones so you can just pull them up to show someone. You used to have to go through the process of getting them developed and it felt like you had to DO something with them so the effort wasn’t wasted, be it an album, a frame or on the fridge.
But also, many of our boomer parents drilled it into our heads that we were worthless and nobody wanted to see pictures of us anyway. So displaying them now seems arrogant.
I have a photo of my nephew from like 2003 in a frame but that’s it
sherahero@reddit
Some people are photo people, some aren't. My husband and I get family photos every year and plan to as long as my kids will participate. My husband has one sibling who does the same. His other siblings and my siblings don't get professional photos annually. My sisters tend do get group photos fairly often but just someone taking their picture with their phone if they are together at an activity.
One of my aunts and her daughter are photographers, so a lot of my cousins get family photos done regularly.
Just_Another_AI@reddit
People used to hove pictures in their wallets, too. Noe they're all on our phones.
bcentsale@reddit
We have tons of photos, everywhere, but I'm an avid amateur photographer who started 29 years ago with an old Pentax SLR. I own multiple flashes, triggers, light modifiers, and do a handful of semi-professional shoots throughout the year, with the occasional paid gig. My wife makes a Mixbook for each year, as well as event-specific ones as needed, and a calendar for her mother. People seemed to stop printing more or less when the camera wasn't a separate device anymore, and everything moved online.
I_like_flowers_@reddit
we have some photos up - i also have a digital frame that cycles through about 500 pictures.
bokatan778@reddit
I have two kids (we are a fairly boring suburban household) and we’ve done family photos once.
I have tons of photos hung around our home though! We’ve gotten lots of great family photos from fun trips and other events. The one time we did family photos, it was a huge pain. Choosing outfits, plus we spent HOURS trying all these different poses, etc. and I didn’t even like most of the photos. Plus it was ridiculously expensive.
Not_a_werecat@reddit
I like to adorn my walls with things I find beautiful or that bring me joy.
Stiff photos of people ain't it.
Quinalla@reddit
100% tons of photos all over, mostly of the kids. Shutterfly prints photos for almost nothing, so when I order for a collage I order a copy for my parents and ILs.
I don’t go to other’s houses often - we are the gathering hub - so no clue what others are doing. My siblings don’t have photos up much (all younger than me).
kteachergirl@reddit
I love family photos and pay for professional ones each year. I really enjoy showing how my kids have grown and capturing their personalities.
And usually my house is 90% trashed with kids’ toys so it’s not about maintaining the perfect facade.
KimberSliceAZDD@reddit
My little family took one professional photo when our son was like 9 months old. Never got around to taking another family photo like that since. We try to get a pic when we are on vacation and stuff but usually just forget. We do have a wall collage upstairs of photos though. Usually if we have one we really like we stick it in a Google folder and when we remember to send the pics to Google to be printed and mailed back. Otherwise we do have a few digital photo slide shows. One is on the coffee and one on the kitchen. Then I always get a print of our kiddos school pictures.
Potato-Engineer@reddit
I have quite a few photos in my home, so I guess I'm just a boomer. Quite a few of those pictures are from a moment in time when my wife went wild and decorated (in the first few years of owning this home), with only a few in following years.
Mind you, that "big decoration moment" was from our entire catalog, so they're from a scattering of times.
TheLowFlyingBirds@reddit
We have tons of family photos up!
FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit
My walls are bare, but I have some important pictures over the fireplace and all the "family pictures" on rotation with the Alexa near the entrance.
I guess the boomer in me is still alive!