Facial recognition technology, history and the meanings of the face
This blog by Fay Bound Alberti was originally published on 17 February 2020 by Foundation for Science and Technology. Facial...
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Jérôme Hamon and the world’s first facial retransplant
There have been fewer than 50 face transplants in the world since 2005, and only two people have undergone the...
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AboutFace: a project roundup for 2021
As we near the end of 2021, the AboutFace team has been reflecting on the year so far. It’s been...
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Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media
Diminishing their Voices: Face Transplants, Patients, and Social Media A video showing a woman inside a spider monkey enclosure at...
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History has Many Faces: researching histories of facial surgery
History has Many Faces This is a post about the conditions in which I am able to research facial difference...
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Sensational Surgery: What does ‘success’ look like after face and double hand transplant?
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love)— … Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” Sensational Surgery: What does ‘success’ look...
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Portrait of an Angry Man – or not?
Part of our Emotions and Ethics series, ‘Portrait of an Angry Man’ is written by Juliet Roberts. Juliet is a...
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Picturing Death: Dealing with Post-Mortem Images
This blog post is part of our Emotions and Ethics series, following the webinar ‘Emotions and Ethics: the use and...
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Why We Should Think About Touch – Using Historical Photographs
Part of our Emotions and Ethics series, today’s blog on using historical photographs is written by Michaela Clark and includes...
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Who Cares? The ethics and emotions of historical medical photography
The next installment of our Emotions and Ethics series is written by Beatriz Pichel, who is Senior Lecturer in Photographic...