Faces of Manchester

Images of the average male and female Mancunian were unveiled yesterday.

A Manchester-based centre for genetics and healthcare took hundreds of photographs of the city’s citizens and merged them together to create a series of portraits and a short film that present the faces of typical Mancunians.
 
The company, Nowgen, revealed the resulting ten portraits of the ‘average’ Mancunian at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MoSI) yesterday. The exhibition aims to represent Manchester’s people and their interests.
 
The ‘Faces of Manchester’ exhibition will also reveal the face of the average Manchester United fan, paired against the average Manchester City supporter, as well as images of the average shopper and music lover.

Challenging society

Professor Dian Donnai, Executive Director of Nowgen and Professor of Medical Genetics at The University of Manchester explained the thinking behind the project: “This project challenges the assumptions that people make about the faces around them.”
 
“By creating images of the average Mancunian, we can ask what makes people’s faces different. How does a person’s genetic make up affect their facial characteristics? What can someone’s face tell us about them?”
 
It will be open to the public from 20 October, as part of the launch of Manchester Science Festival. Nowgen will be hosting a week of free public events and discussions that bring together leading scientists, academics, a plastic surgeon, philosopher and an artist to explore faces and genetics.
 
 
 
 

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