These were the ‘Adams and Eves’ of facial recognition technology

For billions of people, facial recognition technology has become part of daily life, allowing machines to assess our humanity and our physical identities in less than a second.

In return for giving up this part of ourselves, we get a product or service or a sense of safety.

These “Adams and Eves” of facial recognition were part of a US Department of Defense initiative in the 1990s.

“Our whole relationship to technology to me feels very supernatural, feels very in this world of cosmic horror,” he said.

Now when he looks back at these early facial recognition portraits, he feels their vulnerability more than anything else.