Passport, Passphoto departs from the paradoxical situation of piles of archives containing identity photos (pass photos) in the collection of Nyoo Studio, an old photo studio that was founded in the 1940s in Kalisat, Jember, East Java. Decades of operating as a photo studio, Nyoo Studio piles up and collects most of the photos it takes without the will of any categorization or classification. In order to see the wide scale of possibilities of this “archive centre”, this work decided to reproduce the Nyoo Studio mode of operation, by opening a branch of the photo studio. On a daily basis, Nyoo Studio’s main work is the production of photographs – objects that continue to act as a sign of citizenship. Therefore, this work looks at identity photos as a marker of the state’s panopticon in managing citizen data and how this data is negotiated with Nyoo Studio’s archiving practices through collecting identity photos without any information about the owner of the photos such as name, gender, address, religion, ethnicity, and others.