“While sitting in front of the camera and keeping a straight face, I was wondering how something so dull could be ‘tricked’ in order to put more excitement into the whole process,” says photographer Max Siedentopf.
In his latest photo series, Siedentopf injects cheekiness into a process that is otherwise violently boring: taking passport photos. The regulations of passport photography make it seemingly impossible to incorporate any kind of self-expression, so Siedentopf goes about challenging those rules in a ridiculously entertaining way.
- Interview by Nola Schwalb
- Photos by Max Siedentopf
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