If you compare the portraits before and after the smiles, the difference is impressive.
Photographer Jay Weinstein, travels around the world taking portraits of strangers and then asked them to smile and takes another portrait. The impression is changing dramatically is the author of the project wants to draw attention to how the smile affects the perception.
If you compare the portraits before and after the smiles, the difference is impressive. Here’s what the photographer talks about his work at Facebook:
“December 2013. I was in a photo expedition in the desert Sands of Rajasthan in India. Full of people near the train station I saw a man that wanted to photograph. I hesitated. His gaze stony, stern expression scared me. It is the moment of doubt always kills a good shot! In the end I avoided it and shot the other objects until I heard his cheerful voice: “take a picture of me, too!””.
