History, Time, Trauma: The Photography of Doug DuBois – The New Yorker

In 1985, the photographer Doug DuBois took a picture of his parents at their kitchen table after dinner. He saw, he says, their “visible estrangement”—their bodies and gazes turned away from each other, their faces long. But he missed something else, present in the scene right before him. Roughly a week after the photograph was taken, his mother attempted suicide.