115 People Who Took Their Family Photo Recreations To The Next Level (New Pics)

If you haven’t heard of this heartwarming trend, the chances are you were off to the moon. Because people have been recreating their old and dusty family photographs with pretty amazing results.

There’s something quite otherworldly about looking at people doing the exact same things they did many years ago. But it’s not only the time that sets these two photographs apart, it’s also all the experiences that happened between them, the transformations people went through, the ups and downs they conquered.

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So today, we are taking a walk to see some of the loveliest and most soul-soothing family photograph recreations staring the same people, the same composition, sometimes even the same place and clothing, as in the old photograph. The modern remakes suggest that even when the world changes beyond recognition, there’s something inside every one one of us that stay the same.

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#1 My Parents Recreated Their Honeymoon Picture 40 Years Later

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#2 I Saw The Apron While Shopping, And Decided To Do A Remake Of My Mother’s Favorite Picture For Christmas. 23 Years Apart

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#3 We Recreated One Of My Favorite Photos A Few Years Later

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#4 My Parents Always Told Me I Looked Like My Dad’s Mom But I Never Got To Meet Her. Here’s My Grandmother Holding My Dad vs. Me Holding My Son, Taken Exactly 63 Years Apart

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#5 18 Years Later We’re Back On The Beach

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#6 Then And Now: Couple Recreates Wedding Photos After 50 Years Of Being Married

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#7 We Had To Put My Dog Of 16 Years Down Yesterday, But Before We Did We Recreated Our Favourite Photo With Him

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#8 My Dad Passed Away When I Was 1. I Like To Think He’d Be Happy With How Much We Look Alike

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#9 35 Years Ago I Met This Amazing Man. Love Him Even More Today

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#10 First Flight With Dad. So Special. 12 Years Difference

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#11 The World Needs More Fathers Who Stick Around Like This

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#12 Veteran And His Wife Recreate Their Wedding Photos

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#13 From Having One To Being One Happy Father’s Day

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#14 Me And My Great Uncle 24 Years Apart

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#15 A Lot Can Change In 22 Years. Some Things Never Do

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#16 Arnold Schwarzenegger And His Son. Some Things Never Change

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#17 This Man Waits Years To Recreate This Pic

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#18 My Aunt And Uncle Just Celebrated Their 55th Wedding Anniversary. Top Photo 1967 Bottom 2022

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#19 These Pictures Were Taken At The Same Restaurant, But About 2 Years Apart. He’s Lost 90 Lbs And I’ve Lost 135 Lbs

We wanted to be healthy so we could grow old gracefully together, and be around as long as possible for our kids. So grateful for this journey with my best friend!

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#20 Bindi Irwin And Her Husband Recreate Her Mom And Dad’s Pregnancy Photo

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#21 I Remade This Picture Of My Grandma From 1945 For My Dad For Father’s Day. I Didn’t Realize How Much I Looked Like Her

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#22 Side By Side Of My Grandfather At His Wedding And Myself

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#23 My Sister And I Graduating Headstart vs. Us Graduating College

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#24 We Were Destined To Get This Titanic Set (1998 vs. 2022)

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#25 Same Drama

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#26 My Grandparents’ 53rd Anniversary Is Today

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#27 Me And My Dad. 1982 And 2021. Both Age 20, 39 Years Apart

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#28 My Grandmother At A Homecoming Football Game In 1957, And Me In The Same Dress 60 Years Later

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#29 My Daughter And My Wife Wearing The Same Dress 28 Years Apart. Made Me Smile

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#30 Cousins In 1998 vs. Now. Not Much Has Changed

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#31 My Nana And My Little Sister, 64 Years Apart. They’re Nearly Identical

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#32 Not On Wilkerson Street, But I Grabbed A Photo For A “Then And Now” While I Had A Chance. 61 Years Apart And Still In Love. Life Goals If I’ve Ever Seen Them

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#33 We’re The Wikipedia “High Five” Couple, Now We’re Married And Teaching It To Our Kids. Up High

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#34 My Dad And His Siblings In 1969. Then They Recreated It 50 Years Later

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#35 Family Visits Are About Quality Time & Recreating Photos

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#36 2008 Picture Recreation 13 Years Later. For Context, The Boys Were 4 And 6. Now They Are Both Well Over 6 Feet Tall

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#37 Our Baby Came Home For The Weekend Before College Starts Tomorrow. Not Much Has Changed

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#38 The Day We Got Our Puppy, And 11 Years Later

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#39 Every Graduation From UG-PhD We Have Managed To Recreate The Original “Awkward Family Photo”. Last Night Was No Exception

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#40 I Wonder What My Grandchildren Will Experience 100 Years From Now? One Thing I Know, Is My Sisters And I Are Creating A Legacy For Them. Even 20 Years Apart We Still Have It

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#41 2000 To 2022

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#42 Me Holding My Son At My HS Graduation vs. Me Holding My Son At His HS Graduation

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#43 My Father And His Father, In Kiev When He Was A Baby In 1920, And Then In Poland In 1941 Shortly Before He Was Picked Up And Put In Labor Camp

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#44 My Husband And His Two Older Brothers

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#45 2009-2019

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#46 My Grandparents. Then And Now

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#47 My Mom And I Getting “Called To The Bar” As Lawyers 35 Years Apart. 1981 To 2016

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#48 Difference Of 14 Years

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#49 Thanksgiving 2011-2021

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#50 My Dad And I (Right 1993) And My Son And I (Left 2016)

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#51 The Pichler Family Recreation Picture. 2016 And 2021. Hoping To Do It Every Five Years. Someone Remind Me In 2026

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#52 My Family Christmas Photo Recreated 20 Years Later

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#53 Pictures Of Me And My Brother With The Same Owl 10 Years Apart

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#54 My Dad Holding His Niece, Mariam, In The Early 2000s vs. Me Holding My Niece, Also Named Mariam, In 2020

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#55 Cousins In Yellowstone 1992 And Again In 2012

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#56 Me Holding My Son At His 8th Grade Graduation vs. Him Holding Me At His HS Graduation

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#57 For Christmas, My Bros And I Remade 3 Classic Childhood Photos. Minus Bowl Cuts

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#58 My Dad And I Recreated A Picture, With Long Hair Due To Covid. Original Is Circa 1979

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#59 So We Recreated A Photo (Me On Top)

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#60 I Always Thought This Would Be A Cute Photo To Recreate

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#61 Happy Siblings Day. Proud To Call These My People

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#62 So We Did A Thing Yesterday. It May Have Taken Us All Day Be We Had So Much Fun Doing It. Happy Father’s Day Dad

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#63 “Like Mother, Like Daughter” Taken A Little Too Literally. My Mom Is On The Left With Her First Born Son 41 Years Ago And Me On The Right With My First Born Son Today

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#64 Mom And Dad In 1960 And Again In 2010. Married For Almost 59 Years

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#65 Decided To Recreate A Photo With My Dad 25 Years Later

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#66 Some Things Still Don’t Change

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#67 My Father And His Brother 60 Years Ago vs. My Two Boys Today

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#68 My Grandma, Dad, Aunts And Uncles

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#69 Throwback Thursday, 1991 vs. 2021, Back At The House I Grew Up In (Queens, NY)

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#70 Happy Mother’s Day. My Grandma Made Us Recreate An Old Photo

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#71 24 Years Apart

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#72 Yesterday We Did A Recreation Of This Photo From 8 Years Ago. I Am The One Who Is Sitting With The Baby (Not So Baby Anymore) In My Arms

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#73 19 Years Ago Today, My Wife And I Met In A Waterslide Line. Here’s Us The Night We Met And Us Now

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#74 My Dad Literally Got A Hernia Trying To Re-Create This

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#75 My Brother’s Kids Accidentally Almost Recreated A Photo Of Their Father And Myself 33 Years Later

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#76 My Father With Me (1988) vs. Me And My Daughter (2021)

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#77 My Dad & My Son. Same Place, 70 Years Apart. Trafalgar Square, London

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#78 Happy Father’s Day

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#79 Recreated My Favorite Picture Of My Dad And Late Mother This Weekend

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#80 My Grandparents, April 5, 1961 And Again April 5, 2021

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#81 Another Family Recreation, Uncle, Niece, And Nephews

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#82 2003 Recreated In 2021

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#83 I Was Quite The Picky Eater Back In The Days

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#84 20 Years Difference

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#85 Camping With My Son In 1995 And 2022

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#86 My Dad And I Exactly 10 Years Apart

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#87 Me And My Brother Around 10 Years Later

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#88 My Grandfather On His Honeymoon In 1955 And Me Traveling For Work In 2018

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#89 The Very First Professional Photo I Had Taken With My Mom And Then Our Most Recent One

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#90 Mike Gordon (From The Band Phish) With His Mom. Mansfield, Mass, July 1993 And July 2022

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#91 14 Years Later

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#92 My Parents At Their Wedding In ’94 vs. Now At Ages 70 And 60

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#93 My Dad With His First Child (My Sister, 1988) And With His First Grandchild (Her Daughter, 2021). It Wasn’t Recreated Intentionally. He Holds Every Baby Like That

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#94 My Dad And I In 1981 Next To Me With My Son 35 Years Later

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#95 Happy 70th Anniversary To My Wife’s Grandparents. Married In 1950

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#96 Me And My Bros

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#97 My Dad’s Senior Picture In 1975 vs. My High School Picture Freshman Year In 2004

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#98 Age 2 And Age 6

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#99 Great Grandmother (1920) And Great Granddaughter (2021), Both In Their Early 20s

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#100 The White Fence Was Taken Out And The Trees Grew In 61 Years

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#101 The 3 Mouseketeers

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#102 Me And My Dad, 1989 And 2016

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#103 Giving My Boys A Ride vs. My Boys Giving Me A Ride

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#104 Same Spot, Different Food, 18 Years Apart

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#105 We Recreated A Childhood Photo. From Blue’s Clues Birthday Party To 20 Years Later At Thanksgiving

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#106 When My Little Brother Was Just Born vs. Now. 13 Years Between Us

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#107 Thought You Guys Might Like This One Too. There’s Approximately 20 Years Between These Two Photos Of Me And My Mom. I Painted Her Face, She Painted Mine

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#108 During The Morning Matinee 2009-2021

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#109 2003 vs. 2020

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#110 We Worked On Updating Some Old Family Photos Today

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#111 Finally Got A BB Gun

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#112 30 Years Apart At My Grandma’s House

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#113 Nana And Her Grand Babies

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#114 Me And My Mom, A Few Years Later

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#115 Gatorland Zoo In Florida

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