Carlijn Jacobs’ photos explore the transformative power of face paint
In her new book Making Faces, the photographer mines childhood memories to recall ‘the innocence of becoming something else, even if only for a moment’

Getting your face painted at a birthday party is a core memory that remains from many people’s childhoods – a better time, perhaps, when you could leave your worries behind and run around as a lion, a witch, or a tropical sunset. Carlijn Jacobs is no different.
Jacobs’ new book Making Faces “began with a childhood memory,”hellip;
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