Originally published at: These vintage photographs all contain an empty space where a person used to be | Boing Boing
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Family photos are near-totemic objects. Physically cutting out an estranged arsehole from one of them is a powerful and visceral act.
Of course there are other, less salubrious, versions of this played out on the political stage
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When my Grandmother’s memory started failing, snipping out all the faces she didn’t recognize in the family albums was one of her symptoms.
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And that’s why I had no idea what my dad looked like until I was 18.
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