Blank Photos showing up of Faces?

Photos that have already been confirmed in Faces are appearing blank until you click on photo to open it. Alot of the photos that are not confirmed are also blank until you open the thumbnails. Anyone know what is up with this?

In going back to this I found that somehow the face thumbnail was missing for these photos even though everything looks normal on the photo - so I added a missing face positioned so I could tell which one it was and get to the old one to delete it, assigned the new missing face correctly and then deleted the old one (clicked on the top left "x") - now I have face thumbnails in my faces display
No idea how this originally occurred but this fixed it (for the ones I've found and fixed)
LN

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