"The Tournat Family"

This photograph's punctum is the representation of my hurt and bitterness towards my extended family. Barthes states that the punctum is "that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me.)" and this is the best example of that literal bruising. Rather than us being one family, I see in this photograph how our differences break us apart through the obvious fact that my mom and I were not there.