October 5, 2011
Overlapping Faces Around the World
30 Geikos and Maikos dancing the special Kyo dance in Kyoto, Japan How many faces do you see? What if I told you there are 30 people in the photo above? In 1999, Japanese artist Ken Kitano started an ongoing project called Our Face. It involves taking photographic portraits of people on 35 mm film and evenly printing their faces atop one another. Kitano generally groups the faces according to location, profession, and gender.
