--- title: Prince's Passport Photo Is the Most Prince Photo of All Time description: The Purple One recently posted a picture on Twitter that he claimed is the current snapshot for his international travel permit. canonical: https://time.com/4226419/prince-passport-photo/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-16T22:01:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:07.567Z og:title: Prince's Passport Photo Is the Most Prince Photo of All Time og:description: It's flawless og:url: https://time.com/4226419/prince-passport-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince's Passport Photo Is the Most Prince Photo of All Time twitter:description: It's flawless twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Prince's Passport Photo Is the Most Prince Photo of All Time  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 16, 2016 10:01 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 16, 2016 10:01 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/Prince3EG/status/697809908700303360) While most people have to learn to live with passport photos that make them look like deer caught in the headlights, [Prince](http://time.com/2914304/prince-this-could-be-us/) is not most people. [The Purple One](http://time.com/4095828/lebron-james-purple-rain-prince/) recently posted a picture on Twitter that he claimed is the current snapshot for his international travel permit, and it’s pretty flawless to say the least. **Read More:** [Watch Questlove Tell the Epic Story of That Time He Was Fired by Prince](http://time.com/4187381/questlove-fired-by-prince-finding-nemo/) While Prince presumably had to get his passport updated in order to travel for his upcoming [“Piano & A Microphone” tour](http://www.daintygroup.com/tour/prince-piano-a-microphone-tour-2016/) in Australia and New Zealand, there’s no reason he had to make the rest of us look so bad. In fact, the 57-year-old singer isn’t even adhering to the [State Department’s criteria](https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/passports/photos/photos.html) for a neutral facial expression, as he is clearly giving his best Blue Steel. Now that we know that’s allowed, our next passport pics are sure to come out exactly like this. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4226419/prince-passport-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4226419/prince-passport-photo/"},"headline":"Prince's Passport Photo Is the Most Prince Photo of All Time","datePublished":"2016-02-16T22:01:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:07.567Z","description":"It's flawless","url":"https://time.com/4226419/prince-passport-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Photos","Prince","Weird News","singers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4226419/prince-passport-photo/","name":"Prince's Passport Photo Is the Most Prince Photo of All Time"}}]}] ```