Lauren Muney has been a professional artist, entertainer, producer and consultant for the last 30 years.  She cuts her silhouette portraits within a few minutes by hand and scissors (no tracing, drawing or machines) at historical festivals while dressed in the clothes of the 18th and 19th centuries.  She's currently based in Baltimore, USA.  Here are some of her portraits.

Another true silhouette artist who interested me is Karl Johnson who can't see through his left eye. As a result he's forced to judge the shape and distance of something by their shadow.  This gives him the ability to capture a persons outline with uncanny accuracy.  He's now living in Southern California, USA.  Here's some of his work.

He has also done many celebrities silhouettes such as Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Oprah, Hilary Duff and Lindsey Lohan.

Although there are many artists in the world who deal with the profile of a person, not all of them do it using paper.  There are many profile artists who use shadows.  Same idea with a different approach.  One of these artists is Christian Boltanski.  He's a sculptor, photographer, film maker and a self taught painter.  He reconstructs past events like the mass murder of jews in the concentration camps.  He's mostly known for his assemblages (a series of shadows casted all over the walls).  This is a strange but cool approach to making profiles in my opinion and this is why I was drawn to his work.  Here are some of his shadow assemblages.

For the same reason I was interested in Christian Boltanski, I also admire Tim Noble and Sue Webster.  These two are both doctors in art and they create profiles of themselves and famous celebrities using everyday objects such as rubbish to cast shadows by light onto the walls.  What they do is very unique and quite impressive.  Here are some of their works.