If you’re a member of the online social stalk-fest known as Facebook, chances are you’ve spent more than an acceptable amount of time selecting that perfect profile picture. Don’t feel bad, we’ve all done it. Most of us want our profile pictures to be fun, witty, unique and otherwise overblown representations of the looking glass self. That’s where Anton Mircea comes into the picture, as his Facecrook series takes the pain out of picking an entertaining profile picture. The set of 5 pictures are essentially deviations of the original, faceless profile image. The same one you’d see if you refused to upload your own image. Anton describes the series as follows:
I’ve always found the no profile pictures really fascinating. I believe we can enrich visual contexts that are supposed to be standardized or flattened into a template, even transform them into something popular although they were supposed to be the opposite – no profile pictures.