"Come late 90s to the 2000s, and photography was now common. We started taking more pictures of daily activities, capturing life in the moment; candid shots, a baby in mid-crawl.
"A clear change between late 20th century photography and early 2000s photography was the photo composition. Gone were the full body, stiff-looking shots, and in came photos that focused on our expressions. The occasion of the photo wasn't as important as us anymore."
"The increasing affordability of cameras led to interest in photography, and increased the amount of photos taken. My dad was one of those photography enthusiasts. He tried to capture shots that were more informal, involved quirky poses or expressions, and stopped shoving large groups of people into a single photo.
"Mummy and Daddy got themselves more involved in our family photos, they participated in photo shoots as well. They embraced being photo subjects, and not just photographers.
"This meant that our family portrait doesn't our whole extended family—instead, the basic family unit of parents and child became the norm.
"However, despite growing up in the digital age, I don't own many photos that contained my whole family. Pre-selfie era, the photographer almost never got to be in front of the camera, thus most of my photos were either of my Mummy or me.
"In addition, we only spends time together when we went for holidays, as both Mummy and Daddy had to work. Most of our photos when I was a child were taken overseas, and it involved the scenery or landmarks of the country we were visiting.
"When digital photography became widely available, photo editing became possible. Now we can beautify pictures post-shoot, withought needing to worry about “wasting film”, and also validating casual shots.
"Familial portraits were no longer a medium to freeze a moment in history, but rather to celebrate the moment and provide a tangible way for us to reminisce our past."