#family-dysfunction

#family-dysfunction

He'd been shooting large-format prints of lakes in Ontario, he explains, and was trying to capture the mist that rises off their mirrored surface at dawn. "It was really the fog that interested me-much more than the lakes," he says. "The right combination of fog and morning light and the lake reflecting it all was somehow very spooky and serene at the same time."

In dysfunctional or abusive families, fixed family roles sustain dysfunction, allowing those with power to externalize blame onto a scapegoat, often a black sheep.