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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP12 Jul 2024 9:22 p.m. PST

"Hew Morrison specializes in bringing the dead back to life, in giving a face to the faceless.

Born in Inverness, Scotland, and currently based in Thailand, Morrison is a freelance forensic artist. His canvas is a laptop, and he often works with the police and private investigators to reconstruct faces of unidentified corpses. He also works with archaeologists, among whom he has become the go-to guy for recreating likenesses of figures from centuries or even millennia ago. It's painstaking work: For his history projects, Morrison refers to CT scans or photographs of skeletons and skulls as well as paintings, tapestries, busts, sculptures and historical accounts to fashion the most accurate and compelling portraits. When there's ancient DNA analysis available, Morrison can even get a good idea of what hair and eye colors would have been…"

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