Smile is a street people photo reportage series by photographer Paul E Williams. Smile and the wold smiles with you. Everybody has posed and smiled to have their photo taken, though before the camera was invented this behaviour was unknown. In early photos people can be seen smiling shyly at the camera. In modern selfies people adopt exuberant poses and huge grins. It is to these moments, when people adopt their rehearsed pose for the camera that this gallery of photos is dedicated.
“Smile” is an exploration of the masks we put on for the camera to prove to posterity that we live in a perfect, happy world, in which we live the good happy life. With the advent of the selfie the mask that people invent is even more utopian and unreal as any social media site demonstrates.
