The children are growing, and becoming young adults. Each person now has 6 images, as the project moves in to it's 7th year. To see how they have changed over the years, click the link, and see them in a new window.
The children continue to grow. Rose is now in her 6th year of photographing fourteen of the original children. Each child now has 5 images. Click on their names to see how they have changed.
At the end of 2004 Rose put the images together, so that you can see the children morph.
Click on one of the names below to see this happen.
In 2001 Rose began a large and on-going personal piece of work.
Rose asked children aged between 8 and 16 to be photographed and insisted that they neither wore makeup nor smiled. "I find that images of children not smiling are more intriguing and so reflect a greater depth of character" she explains, "The thought-provoking expressions seem to blur the boundaries between child and adult."
Each child is photographed in exactly the same way, yet each shows a powerful sense of individuality.
She now has hundreds of portraits of children in the collection.
In February 2002 the first major exhibition of FACES was held at Norden Arts Centre in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Here are some comments made by visitors to the exhibition.
“Stunning and thought provoking”
“Everyone is so different – fascinating”
“It’s a fascinating concept – it makes you look at people in a different way”
“I found the images compelling to look at”
“I can’t stop staring!”