In the run up to Christmas many of us will end up posing for photographs with family and friends. Back in the old days those old pictures would likely be hidden away in some dusty photo album somewhere. Any embarrassment they could cause was thankfully limited. However, the old days are long since gone and those pictures you hoped would never see the light of day might find a new lease of life on the internet thanks to a hilarious website ‘celebrating’ awkward family photos,

Awkward Family Photo

The website is aptly called awkwardfamilyphotos.com and according to the sites founders, Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, it’s intended to be a “communal celebration of awkwardness.”

“It hit us that there was something universal about the awkwardness of family and we thought it be cool to blog about that,” Said Bender. “And what better way to show that than through the family photo, something everyone can relate to?”

The site is very familiar to one which I am itching to make a few submissions to. dorkyearbook.com is another photo submission site this time ‘celebrating’ the geeks of the world.

Since it’s creation in May this year awkwardfamilyphotos.com has received many thousands of submissions. Indeed the site has been such a success that a coffee table book of awkward family photo’s is set to be published early next year.

The awkwardfamilyphotos.com blog still gets more than 100 submissions a day from all over the world. Below are just a few of the my favorites.

Awkward Family Photo

Awkward Family Photo

Awkward Family Photo

Awkward Family Photo

I haven’t made any submissions to the site (and I’m hoping my family will also resist the temptation to do so!), though I do feel that a good addition would be the picture of President Obama and the First Lady with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his wife, and their two goth daughters who had never been seen in the media before.

The site is very funny and well worth a visit if you have time. Visit it at awkwardfamilyphotos.com.

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