No smiling please Henry and Hetty Hoover: one of Max Siedentopf's cheeky portraits © Courtesy the artist and Wellcome photography prize
Who actually likes their passport photo? Everyone dreads revealing their ten-year old pudding haircut (and more youthful features), while the stringent conditions for taking the pics (“No smile and mouth closed”) are terrifying. “It seems almost impossible for any kind of self-expression,” says the German-Namibian artist Max Siedentopf who has duly turned this dreary genre on its head with a series of quirky snaps that imagine what some passport picture people are doing off camera. In the onlinRead More – Source
