23 Photographers Share the Most Cringeworthy School Portraits They’ve Taken

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The photographer who did my senior photos told me the weirdest request she had gotten so far that year was a girl who very specifically wanted just one arm photoshopped to be especially thin. It ended up being a girl in my class and I noticed the second I saw her picture in the yearbook. She was a bigger girl so she had one chubby arm and one very, very, very skinny twig-like arm. She didn’t seem to notice how weird it was. She was one of the more popular girls so of course everyone looked at her picture and noticed. She had no clue. She only focused on the arm that was closer to the camera. I was torn between feeling bad and wanting to laugh hysterically. I chose both.

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Asked a teacher if a severely disabled student could sit by themselves on the bench. The student couldn’t and there was a pretty hard thump on the gym floor.

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Guy at my school had a reverse Mohawk which is where you shave a line down the middle. The photographer actually asked him if he’d like to wear a hat.

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Kid I went to high school with showed up on picture day wearing a giant afro wig. He had worn a wig the year before but it wasn’t as noticeable so our Senior year he decided to push it. These weren’t yearbook shots just school ids. He gets to the front of the line and the photographer tells him to take the wig off. He argues it was he real hair and even breaks out the my dad is black argument. Finally the guy just lets him take the picture with the wig on

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.