15 incredibly awkward Xmas photos

Screw you camera

15 incredibly awkward Xmas photos

When you were a kid, everything about Christmas was monumentally awesome. Presents, chocolates, snow, time out of school: all unfathomably exciting. But every now and then your cruel relatives would insist on bringing out a dreaded camera and, quite simply, ruin everything by taking plenty of awkward photos.

Pre-digital camera, pre-internet, pre-tagging; you'd have been safe in assuming they'd stay hidden in a musty basement next to a box of VHS tapes. Not so simple. The Awkward Family Photos book serves as a constant reminder that the past can be made present quite easily and no one is safe (especially if you happened to go through a pudgy phase and/or suffered from haircut hackery).

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Danny's decision to eat every single chocolate in the advent calendar at once was coming back to haunt him.

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Watch out family, Dad looks like he hears voices.

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Little Cindy knew they'd forget to wear their matching costumes.

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See, get it? We'll all look like a tree. Now stay still until New Year's.

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Hank loved the breeze.

Marc Chacksfield
Editor at Large

Marc likes nothing more than to compile endless lists of an evening by candlelight. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.