Husband never takes photos - is this a common thing

100% it's a thing, my DH is the same. He has got better and will take the odd one unprompted but I find I just need to be blunt and ask him to take a few if I want them.

He's not very sentimental about photos in general though whereas I love looking through old family albums.

My DH is the same

Doesn't take photos of me and the kids but has pictures of really random things

He gets annoyed with me as I love taking photos of anything- i see the creativity in photo taking! Even on my phone!

I take pictures the photos myself OP. Doesn't have to be a selfie. I have a tripod for my phone and use the timer! You can get very creative!

Most of my "candid" photos are actually posed that way and i suspect it's the same for a lot of people! I have one of me on a recent trip that i really like and family and friends think my DH took it, nope trusty tripod and timer 😂

If i want DH to take the photo, i do ask!

My husband rarely takes photos of people, which overall I don’t think is a bad thing, because he is truly awful at it. Can do nice shots of landscape and so on though.

I don’t know many men generally, who seem to have the same sentimental view of photographs that women have. Those I do tend to be more fans of candid photographs, that is to mean - nobody is looking in the same direction, someone has their eyes closed, someone else looks like they’re having a stroke.

My mum and dad both took loads, and I'm incredibly grateful because they've both now died, and I have photos of myself with both of them throughout the time I had with them. I was able to tell my Dad how grateful I am, because some of my friends have next to no photos of themselves with their mum.

DH is pretty good. Both him and my Dad have been into photography though - perhaps that's the secret.

Sounds refreshing to me- I can't stand people who are always taking pictures. Live in the moment, not in some imagined future looking back at the past. Not every occasion has to be recorded for posterity- "last mother's day before the arrival of your new baby" is one that the annals can probably manage without.

Yes same here, my mum never took photos, we barely have any of my dad because of this.

I agree with this ^
I haven’t got any photos yesterday but tbh it was just a relaxing day in our house. I have plenty of photos of DD and me together to prove that we are related 🙂

My DH is the same, we are on holiday just the two of us at the moment and I have to ask for photos all the time. I have loads of him! Same as with the kids at home, loads of them and hardly any of me.
Like someone else, he manages to take the least flattering pictures ever 😂 it’s just not his thing.
I took some at a landmark we visited and he was like you haven’t taken that, that’s a photo off the website or brochures, I’m like that’s my picture, taken right now.

It was the complete opposite in our house - my dad took the vast majority of the photos when I was growing up and still takes the majority now.

I find the taking of photos these days quite oppressive and OTT. I long for the days when we had 24 or 30 shots on the film and you had to really think about what to take a photo of. I have amazing memories of things that there isn’t a single photo for. I do enjoy my childhood albums, and it does feel like there are loads, but in comparison there aren’t because my parents couldn’t take unlimited photos with their camera.

However, that isn’t your question. It’s not a man thing, my DH enjoys a good photo, and his family can take the exact same photo over about 175 times with slight angle changes of your head. DC2 and I have a rule that we will only do 9 photos at a wedding!

Truly, if you wanted photos you had to tell him, regardless of whether you wanted candid.

Yes same here, I never take photos whereas OH always is snapping away, it annoys me as I just live in the moment and he is seeing days out through his camera on his phone and holding it up all the time to video things

I dont have photos on my phone apart from ones OH has sent me. Which I barely bother to look at anyway

Some people like to take photos, some don’t. I rarely take photos, DP takes loads. OP if you want your husband to take photos, you have to ask him.

When I actually had camera, I would take lots of photographs, now I only have a 'phone, I hardly take any. No idea why.

God, its not 'another thing men don't think about'.

It's another thing that some people don't think about.

I've never been a big photo taker. My ex husband was, my last boyfriend was and my partner is. All men.

I've also dated men who weren't and there are literally no photos from our time together.

Why are you expecting a man to think like a woman?

If you want a photo, take a photo.

Yes. This is why selfies are great, it means women can include themselves in the photographic record without asking for permission from a man.

Am I imagining that there was an advert one year on the tv about mums being behind the photos, not in them?

I rarely take photos. I've been on holidays where i've taken 3 or 4 and that is normally of something like a piece of art or a building where I want to remind myself to find out more about it.

Nothing to do with being a man or a woman. In our house DH is the big photo taker.

this.

It’s another thing men don’t think about and if they remember one time they are “good husbands and not part of the problem”
this never ending task is just another small crumb of the mental load boulder women carry.

mine has I think cracked it as for 3 years I say “okay can you take a few of me please and WhatsApp them to me straight after so I actually get to see them and maybe print a couple”

I honestly didn’t realise societal misogyny was such an issue until my first child had exited my body at which point I felt I was living in some sort of parallel universe.

My husband rarely thinks to take any pictures. I love photos and have to really stop myself taking more. I get a selfie with my kids if there’s something I really want to remember

My partner and I have been together for around 3 and a half years.

He's a big photo taker. I don't think I've ever taken a photo of him unless it was so he could see his hair from the back! It just doesn't occur to me.

I also hate having my photo taken so he has several photos of me from the first 18 months - most of which I'm covering my face in somehow. And nothing since.

His camera roll is full though because he takes photos of everyone and everything else.

It's not a man thing, no. It's a big deal for some people and not at all for others. If you want him to take a photo of you and your son, just tell him.

Dh is the photo snapper in our house. I don't think he's getting upset about me not being that interested.

I'm more bothered about savouring and enjoying the moment. Compared to many people, there are virtually no photos of my kids and me, but I still have very happy memories.