Faces in Places is a photoblog that features (as the author describes) photographs of faces found in everyday places.[2][3] The featured photographs consist of inanimate objects that a viewer would perceive as representing a face. This perception is a type of pareidolia—perceiving random stimuli as significant, or anthropomorphism—people attributing human qualities to a non-human being or object.
The Faces in Places blog was launched on April 23, 2007, with a photo of a crane that resembles a grasshopper. Prior to this, the editor had started to encourage people with a similar interest in anthropomorphic images to submit them to a Flickr group. The Flickr group is now the main source of images used on the blog. The blog has not been updated since January 2015.
In 2010, Ammonite Press published a book by the same name, compiled by Jody Smith.[1] The book follows the blog and features photos of pareidolic "faces" in everyday places photographed by members of the Flickr group.[1] Proceeds from the book raises money for the children's charity, Hope For Children.[4]
