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Photography

handmade34

(22,759 posts) Tue Jul 23, 2013, 09:20 AM Jul 2013

genetic portraits

interesting!

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130712-genetic-portraits-of-families

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future,” wrote US journalist and author Gail Lumet Buckley. Perhaps nowhere is this shown more starkly than Ulric Collette’s so-called “genetic portraits”, in which family members’ faces are spliced together to reveal the similarities and differences encoded by our appearances.