How a good passport photo became the ultimate flex

Almost every day, we scroll past a passport photo. They stand out; one of the few remaining images that produces visual sameness inside a feed engineered for constant mutation. The passport picture – along with its cousins, the photobooth picture and the driver’s license picture – is a relic that we just can’t shake. For something so anti-aesthetic (blank expression, sterile lighting, government-imposed symmetry), its appeal endures. Showing up on dating profiles, Tumblr, Pinteresthellip;

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