These images are a creative representation of how people living with facial blindness might perceive the world around them.

The editing of facial features through distortion and blurring, alongside a distracting background, attempts to highlight the confusion that may be felt by a person who has facial blindness. We aimed to reflect their disorientation when looking at other people’s faces.
Our decision to include stages of the perceptual process represents an attempt to understand their struggle to both distinguish between faces and associate faces with individuals. Accessories such as earrings, caps and glasses are unaltered as we have learned that some people with facial blindness find it helpful to use alternative visual strategies to identify individuals – such as memorizing commonly worn accessories.