Archive of Forgotten Faces

Photography has preserved only a small fraction of human faces. For thousands of years most of them disappeared without a trace – absorbed by time and the earth.

It is estimated that around seventy billion people have lived on our planet. The vast majority of their faces were never recorded. No image exists that could bring them back. We do not know their gazes, their features, or the small marks of individuality that once defined them.

They remained anonymous and invisible.

In an age of constant image production and digital archives, it is easy to forget that for most of human history the face was something fleeting — appearing for a brief moment before disappearing forever together with the memory of those who knew it.

This series attempts to direct attention toward this vast, absent part of human history — toward the faces that existed, looked at the world, experienced life, yet vanished once and for all.