29 year old Swedish artist, Fredrik Saker, doesn't have a photo on his picture ID driving licence card; it's a painting. In fact it is a self-portrait. However, the painting is so life-like, even when viewed at a size much larger than a passport photos, that nobody thought it was anything other than a photo. The licence issuing office compared the picture with an earlier photo and were convinced it was a routine photo of the applicant a few years older.

Saker went to great lengths to get his painting to be as photo-realistic as possible and from all accounts he has pulled it off. Part of Saker's inspiration was that the wording of the licence application instructions requests a recent likeness of the applicant and doesn't specifically insist that the image be a photograph of the applicant.

It's a remarkable story and you can read more about it on the BBC website (this might not be accessible in all countries) see:

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20739778[/url]