The years might rush by and we might look different, but deep down inside, we’re still the same people we always were. In our opinion, one of the most interesting trends to sweep the internet is people recreating old family photos. While some people are reenacting the same scenes with the same poses alongside their family members (sometimes even wearing nearly identical clothes), others are snapping photos where they look so much like their loved ones, the similarity is uncanny.
The Bored Panda team has collected some of the most interesting family pic recreations for you to enjoy, Pandas, so scroll on down and upvote the ones you liked the best. And if you’ve ever done anything similar, post a photo to show everyone else in the comment section below. When you’re done, check out our earlier posts about awesome photo recreations right here, here, and here.
Bored Panda spoke about family photo recreations with photographer Dominic Sberna, one of the people whose reenactments have gone viral online. “The photo my sister and I recreated was from her first communion. So, the photo was taken roughly 19 years ago. It was actually her idea to recreate the photo. I can’t speak for her, but I’d have to guess it was the veil in the old photo that sparked the idea to recreate the old image, on her wedding day,” he told us. Read on for our full interview with Dominic. Bored Panda also reached out to Cody about him recreating his grandfather’s photo in Japan. He told us all about how “surreal” and powerful it was.
#1 It’s All I Wanted For My 60th Birthday
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#2 My Grandpa’s Three Surviving Brothers Coming Together 90 Years Later On The Same Farm, With The Same Exact Bench
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#3 My Sister And I Recreated Our First Picture Together
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#4 Dad And Me Feeding Murray. Same Place, Same Croc – Two Photos 15 Years Apart
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#5 My Dad And I Recreated A Tender Moment 34 Years Later. 1985 vs. 2019
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#6 Couple At Woodstock 48 Hours After They Met And 50 Years Later
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#7 My Dad And I 38 Years Apart, Thought I Should Post It Here
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#8 1967-2019: Same Bike, Same Couple
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#9 40 Years, Folks. 40 Years. It Happens To All Of Us Sooner Or Later
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#10 Father And Daughter 13 Years Later. 2006 vs. 2019
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#11 My Wife And Daughter The Day Our Daughter Moved In For Foster Care vs. Today, Five Years Later, Two Years Post Adoption
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#12 Me And My Grandpa In Medical School 70 Years Apart (Equally Sleep Deprived)
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#13 Same Wedding Outfits 60 Years Later
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#14 60 Years Apart. Going Home From Service 1959 And Going Home From Chemo 2019
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#15 40 Years Later
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#16 My Deceased Father And I At The Same Age, 24 Years Apart
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#17 My Sister Got Married Over The Weekend, So We Recreated This Gem From Our Childhood
Image source: DominicOH, Country Roads Photography
#18 For My Mom’s 60th Birthday, My Brothers, My Cousin And I Recreated A Photo From My First Day Of Kindergarten
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#19 My Father Holding Me As A Baby vs. Me With My Newborn Son
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#20 My Mother And Father. Photos Taken 51 Years Apart
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#21 Recreated My Mom’s Favorite Photo Of Us For Mother’s Day
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#22 My Parents In 1975 And Again In 2020. They’ve Been Married And Playing Music Together For Over 45 Years Now!
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#23 18 Years Later
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#24 My Grandfather And I In Tokyo, 73 Years Apart
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#25 Me In My Snoopy Sweater In 1981, My Son In The Same Sweater In 2017, And My Daughter In The Same Sweater In 2020
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#26 Me Holding On To My Girl At My High School Graduation In 2002. I’m Holding On To Her Even Tighter At Hers In 2020
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#27 My Grandma And Dad 1966 And 2020
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#28 Picture On The Left Went Viral Recently. 33 Years Later The Same Protagonists Recreated It
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#29 Me And My Cousin. 2005 And 2020. It Was Much More Difficult To Take The Picture Now
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#30 Me And My Son, 24 Years Apart
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#31 My Dad’s First Day At School In The 70s, And Now 50 Years Later
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#32 My Sister And I Did A Series Of Throwbacks – This Is Definitely The Best One. Circa 1994 vs. 2015
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#33 My Friend And His Grandpa, 65 Years Apart
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#34 My Parents By Their Tree In 1975 And Now In 2016
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#35 Dad Holding Me Circa 1987. Me Holding My Son 2020
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#36 Me And My Twin Bro Made It To 30
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#37 I Looked Through My Mom’s Photo Album To Find That She Took This Picture At Schönbrunn Palace During A College Trip In 1991. I Took The Same Picture In 2017
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#38 I Found This Polaroid Of My Dad Shortly After He Passed A Year Ago. I Finally Recreated It Today
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#39 My Sisters And I Recreated A Classic Family Photo From 1985
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#40 To Celebrate Our 50th Anniversary, Wife And I Recreated Our Wedding Pic. She’s Wearing The Same Dress
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#41 My Dad Holding Me As A Baby vs. Me Holding My Newborn Son
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#42 My Dad And Me At The Exact Same Spot On The Isle Of Heligoland 1977 And 2018
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#43 15 Years Later And We Still Have That Mall Photo Shoot Swagger
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#44 Me And My Grandad, 55 Years Apart. He’s A Heart Surgeon, Me – A Neonatology Fellow
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#45 26 Year Old Recreation. Me And My Twin On Our 30th Birthday. Our Most Embarrassing Photo
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#46 I Was Digging Around On Ancestry And Found A Photo Of My Husband’s Great-Grandfather From World War I. I Had To Do A Side-By-Side Comparison
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#47 My Wife And Her Mom At 6 Months – 1989, My Daughter And My Wife Today
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#48 My Four Brothers And I In 1997 vs. 2017
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#49 We Recreated Our First Halloween’s Costumes 20 Years Later
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#50 Donkey Kong Country!
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