‘I look deranged, but my baby looks happy!’ Nine writers on their favourite photo booth picture

<p>This year marks a century since the birth of the photo booth, and friends and families are still squeezing into them for fun and unflattering snaps - capturing the highs, lows and loves of their lives</p><p>I didn’t find early motherhood easy. It wasn’t my daughter’s fault – she was, mercifully, a wonderful and cheerful baby – but I underestimated what a huge shift it would be at an already stressful time. When I was pregnant, we moved to a new town, to a wreck of a house we planned to do up. My mum, who was ill, moved in with us, and then I was the carer of a newborn and a dying parent – at the two extremes of life, but sharing many of the same needs, and often at the same time.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2025/nov/06/i-look-deranged-but-my-baby-looks-happy-nine-writers-on-their-favourite-photo-booth-picture">Continue reading...</a>