Rakesh Julka runs Butterfly Dental Solutions, a company that supplies dental clinics across India, and he spends his working life looking at dentistry from the side patients never see. Butterfly […]

Photo: Irina Sabatina Tomoka Tsuchida repairs broken ceramics in Paris with natural urushi lacquer, and the first thing she will tell you is that gold is not the point. Kintsugi […]

Mike O’Donnell is Ireland’s only full-time court artist, and in many trials his drawing is the only picture the public will ever see. Cameras are not allowed inside an Irish […]

Gala has spent years posing for artists, which means she has seen hundreds of versions of her own body made by hundreds of different hands. Almost nobody gets that. Most […]

Katarzyna Knurowska designs smiles that draw the eye without giving away that anything was done. She is a dental technician who specialises in digital smile design. She works on intraoral […]

Łukasz Andrzejewski photographs people in black and white, in Opole, and books two or three hours for a single sitting. Not because taking the pictures takes that long. Because that […]

Ewelina Pachnik works on the first impression that has nothing to do with a face. Before anyone has finished looking at you, they have heard you say three words, and […]

Niamh Davis tattoos skin in Arizona so that something stops being visible. Almost everything else done with a needle and pigment is meant to be noticed. Her work runs the […]

Joanna Nowicka shoots black and white portraits in Katowice, and people arrive at her studio with a fixed idea of how they look. Usually a harsh one. Over the years […]

Ane de Cocó makes hats by hand in Spain, to measure, for people who mostly arrive convinced that hats do not suit them. She works in a craft that used […]

Deirdre Nicholls sculpts people from life and paints landscapes in watercolour, and the two disciplines contradict each other on purpose. A watercolour has to be caught before the rain comes. […]

Paulina Hojka makes portraits out of fabric scraps, and the faces in them are mostly missing. She cuts and layers textiles that were on their way to an incinerator, and […]

Medplus.cz started in 2006 in Havířov with three products and a catalogue that fitted on one sheet of A4, and today it supplies dental practices across the Czech Republic with […]

Monie Szabó paints portraits in oil and graphite in Gothenburg, mostly in black and white, and she also photographs the people she paints. She runs her own gallery, teaches, and […]

Craig Barnard makes portrait sculptures from life, which means he spends around twenty hours in a room with a face before it becomes a head. He also paints and works […]

Izabela Wilewska spends her days a few centimetres from other people’s faces. She is a dental hygienist, named among the Top 10 Hygienists of the Year in Poland, and she […]