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The portraits, which feature people who work with graphene at\u00a0The University of Manchester<\/a>\u00a0can be seen from street level and line the perimeter of the building.<\/p>\n

The gallery aims to take a snapshot of the 250 graphene researchers working across a multitude of disciplines from physics, chemistry, materials science and biomedical science.<\/p>\n

The installation, titled\u00a0A Random Walk,<\/em>\u00a0was inspired by Sir Andre Geim\u2019s Nobel prize acceptance lecture\u00a0Random Walk to Graphene<\/em><\/a>\u00a0when, in 2010 together with Sir Kostya Novoselov, he won the\u00a0Nobel Prize in Physics<\/a>\u00a0for demonstrating the remarkable properties of graphene.<\/p>\n

Mark Epstein, Photographer and Senior Language Tutor at The University of Manchester, undertook months of interviewing and photographing to create this unique portrait gallery.<\/p>\n

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The collection of black and white pictures also include extracts from those interviews that not only tell the story of the ground-breaking research being carried out, but the wider ethical challenges, personal histories and motivations of the people currently working in and around graphene at the University.<\/p>\n

Mark Epstein said: \u201cThis new material graphene, was creating quite a buzz around the University. Being a language teacher, I am interested in both image and text and I wanted to tell this story in a way visually distinct from the clich\u00e9d pictures of \u2018scientists in lab coats\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sir Kostya Novoselov who provided the foreword for the installation said: \u201cThe National Graphene Institute is fundamentally important to continue the world-class research started in Manchester. The key part however, is not the equipment, the labs and the cleanrooms but the dynamic and research-hungry staff. The people featured in this gallery reflect all the stages that one passes during the research cycle: brilliant idea, disappointment, occasional breakthrough and hard work at each stage\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time the arts have been used in parallel with science. Collaborative projects with the NGI have included:\u00a0From Seathwaite<\/em><\/a>\u00a0a graphite drawing which spans three floors of the NGI and depicts the story of graphite and graphene and a musical collaboration with composer in residence Sara Lowes who composed\u00a0Graphene Suite<\/em><\/a>, a six-part movement exploring the commonalities of the creative processes between composition and scientific discovery.<\/p>\n

Mark\u2019s previous projects include\u00a0Grand Theatre, Blackpool<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Bus\u00f3 Walking.<\/em>\u00a0More information on\u00a0A Random Walk<\/em>\u00a0and the full catalogue can be found at\u00a0www.markepstein.co.uk
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