as a visual narration of modern man’s obsession with facial hair, new york city-based photographer mindo cikanavicius turns beards’ synonymous theme of masculinity on its head through the series ‘bubbleissimo’. a hybrid between the english word ‘bubble’ and the italian suffix ‘issimo’ — meaning extremely, or a lot — the very foamy series sees stoic portraits of smartly-dressed men sporting stubble made of soap. ‘the bubble soap beards and mustaches were applied to show how fragile manliness can be in today’s society,’ cikanavicius explains.