Theme: Faceless Portraits

Faceless Portraits. What is a faceless portrait? As its name says, its any type of portrait in which you cannot see the person’s actual face. Its about finding other creative ways to depict a person and their identity and highlight other aspects of your subject (or yourself!). Hiding the face can be done by cropping the image, using silhouette, covering the face with hair, hand, hat or veil, photographing from the back of the person, with their head turned away or with their face in shadow, photographing other body parts e.g. hand, deliberately blurring the face e.g. with motion blur, or using post-processing to remove or blur the face.

See How to Take Great Faceless Portraits (+ Posing Ideas) and 16 No Face Photo Ideas You Must Try in 2024 for more information and ideas.