The left and right side of your face may not seem that different, but as photographer Julian Wolkenstein illustrates with his portraits, which duplicate each side of a face to create strikingly different versions of the same person, that’s not the case. Part of that is because our faces are asymmetrical. If you’ve used multiple mobile apps to take pictures of yourself, you’ve probably noticed that some, like Snapchat, record your likeness as it would appear in a mirror others, like group-messaging app GroupMe, flip the image horizontally and save your selfie the way others would see you-and this version can be jarring to look at. Whether or not a selfie is reversed after being shot is a major factor. Selfies sometimes look strange to their subjects because of how we see ourselves in the mirror, how we perceive our own attractiveness, and the technical details of how we take them on camera phones. But what about earnest selfies that are just accidentally ugly?ĭon’t blame your face. Taking purposefully ugly selfies encourages photographers to seize control of their self-image by rejecting beauty standards and embracing the imperfect humanity of our faces.
I’ve thought about sending these photos to friends many times-that’s why I took them, after all-but each time my finger lingers over the share button, a few questions stop me: Why does my face look so weird? Are my eyelids that droopy? Is my chin that lop-sided? And how come nobody warned me? Welcome to the department of discarded selfies, a dark place deep inside my phone where dimly lit close-up shots of my face are left to fade away into the cloud.
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