Work

We’re having to prepare a visa photo for my boss’s upcoming business trip to Brazil and they’ve rejected every one – first one was a scanned photo they said was too fuzzy, so I took some digital shots of him and cleaned them up. Now they’re claiming he’s smiling or showing too much facial expression. I’ve tried photoshopping him to be less expressive but I don’t know if they'll accept it.

The ridiculous thing is that my colleague found a pdf showing “acceptable” photos, which says nothing about smiling and every example is a hideous digital monstrosity – think “Final Pam” from Monster Factory.