Your profile needed for a book

I need to ask for a little help. It seems I've at last been commissioned to write a book (on silhouettes of course) which for me is very exciting.  This is due to come out sometime in 2012.  It will feature sections on a wide variety of silhouette portraits, both traditional and modern, interspersed with snippets of history about eccentric silhouettists from the eighteenth century onward.

Without giving too much away this is a book which is going to be illustrated with a lot of silhouettes, and in general they need to be silhouettes of modern day people who are happy to appear in such a book.  This is where you come in. I'm going to need all kinds of people to help me; adults, children, older people, beautiful people, 'characters', happy, sad, etc, &c..  Whatever category you consider yourself in, I need your profile!

So, for the next few weeks I'm making a one-time-only very special offer.  If you can send me a profile photo together with a brief note confirming that you are happy to be included to be in the project (or on behalf of children for those under 18) then at some point in the future I will send you a free silhouette as a thank-you.  I can't say what kind of silhouette it will be, perhaps cut or painted, perhaps embellished.  Maybe a caricature, hollow-cut, or a full-length portrait.  But you will get a silhouette.

As well as the book I hope to include all the silhouettes in an exhibition, perhaps later this year.  This does mean it may be some little while before your silhouette arrives, but I hope that won't deter you.  Finally, just to be clear, in the majority of cases it's only the silhouette which will appear in the book, not the photograph itself.  There will be no names printed and the only possible way you could be identified is by the accuracy (or otherwise) of your silhouette.

I do hope you'll want to be involved in this project.  Just get your mobile phone or digital camera and take a few shots of, perhaps colleagues or family members, anybody who likes the idea.  You need to show the whole head and shoulders (or if you like, full length) and be in profile.  Don't worry about background or lighting. I don't need great quality photos, anything of a small-medium size suitable for e-mailing will do.

Don't delay as the offer won't remain for long, for obvious reasons I am reserving the right to call 'time out' at any point...

Self-portrait with scissors (after August Edouart)