"Last summer, we went to Moscow to visit a company that was developing a new kind of portraiture. The aim is to take shots of people passing through places like border crossings, railway stations, sports halls, even cinemas. It is eerie and sinister: it captures the shape of a face in a split second, from multiple angles, using various lenses. It then constructs a 3D model of the head that can be closely analysed and stored for future reference. The result is more like a death mask than a photograph. The eyes have a deadened appearance because at no point does the subject look into a camera." - × × ×