ABSTRACT

Publishing family photos during Eid-al-Fitr seems to have become a common trend in the past few decades in Indonesia. At this point, family Eid photos for the digital society are no longer presented only in domestic spaces. The question is how does society narrate and imagine families in the portraits they upload in virtual public spaces? This condition will be contrasted with several concepts related to the family in Indonesia. Thus, how does society imagine the construction of a family in a virtual space of friendship networks. This paper then tries to explain historically how the family is represented and imagined in a family portrait in Indonesia. Data collection was carried out using the reflexive photography method to elaborate the visual interpretation between the researcher and the participant.