| Isn't it fascinating what a
love-hate relationship we have with the human mouth? The sounds
that come from it can stir us to action, lull us to sleep,
encourage, cajole, hector us; frighten the living daylights out
of us; or sometimes even bore us sh*tless. Here on the coming
pages I have assembled a few photos of people both famous and
completely nondescript but the one thing they have in common is
a big mouth, sometimes giving out roars of command, screeches of
rage, wise words of advice or even hard, jaw-cracking yawns.
Some of them are completely un-retouched (see the first photo of
'Tony' and Cherie
Blair it's a beauty! The photo that is, not Cherie of
course) but I have to confess to have taken a liberty or two
with several of the others, aided by my trusty Photoshop
program.
I haven't set out to produce
timeless works of art that will hang in the Louvre or the
British Museum for generations to come, to be wondered at by
awe-struck hicks sucking on their ice-creams and uttering shrill
cries of "s'orrible innit!" or Shopenhauer-worshipping pseuds
muttering into their beards about the artist's persipacity and
visional depth; oh dear no, I did it for the best of all
possible reasons.
It gave me a laugh. I hope it
does the same for you, too. |