FACE UP TO IT

ONCE YOU BEGIN SPOTTING EXPRESSIONS IN THE MOST UNEXPECTED OF PLACES, EVEN CAMERAS, CARDBOARD BOXES AND CHEESE GRATERS CAN RAISE A SMILE

For some people it’s Elvis in a piece of toast, for others, it’s the man in the moon. For Jean Robert, it was a padlock, ‘gazing at him with whimsical intensity’. That was 40 years ago, and he and his brother Francois have been on the lookout for faces in inanimate objects ever since – and photographing and sharing them for us to appreciate, too. Just take a look at their Instagram @francoisrobertfaces for a taster. It’s a world where a bucket hat can appear unexpectedly friendly, a cactus can look surprised and you sense that even the side of a house might start wanting a good old chinwag with you at any moment… While the Robert brothers have got face finding down to an art, seeing faces in objects is…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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