Doug DuBois’s Beautiful Photos of Youth, Age, and His Parents’ Failing Marriage | VICE | United States

“Was it really that bad?” That’s what Roger DuBois asked after seeing his son Doug’s photograph of their family’s 1987 New Year’s Eve celebration. In it, the DuBois clan sits silently and glumly around a corked champagne bottle. Roger looks at his feet. His wife Ruth and his daughter Lise stare blankly at opposite walls. And his younger son Luke looks emotionlessly at the camera. Given that the photograph was taken soon after Ruth’s attempted suicide, and a few years before the couple’s divorce, was the photograph predicting the events that were to come?