to put it simple and straight: people are probably the most important thing on earth! being human means to accept the idea that we are a race, that there are others like me, that i'm not alone in this mess. interaction with other people defines my existence, my life, my very personal identity. our mind is not able to exist without exchange. we have to communicate. non-communication means death of body and mind. if our eyes are functional, they are the primary source of input to perceive others. we are constantly in a mode of scanning our environment for others. and here they are: faces! thousands of faces! how many faces have you seen in your life? thousands? billions? which ones do you remember? and why? whatever you say, another one's face is your first one-stop-shop for perception and analysis of the current situation. other parts of your interaction counterpart may well attract your attention. but be honest: it's the face you look into while talking. mouth, lips, eyes, teeths, cheeks, chin, ears, nose, nostrils, and all those small details and proportions you observe. it's interesting, isn't it? do you feel attracted by a face? why? what is it that people find fascinating about faces? how are you looking at my lomos here in this series? check yourself ! are you categorizing? male/female, young/old, beautiful/not so beautiful? how are you categorizing (some lomos are pretty unsharp, aren't they?)? are you selecting? this one is beautiful, that one isn't! this guy is cute, i wonder how i could get in touch? or are you even relating the faces to me? who is this, why is s/he here on this page? are you trying to reconstruct my life through faces? maybe i do... faces matter, faces fascinate, it's nice to look at faces, isn't it? our whole life is full of faces. no face is like another. who has ever seen an utterly perfect doppelganger...i didn't. twins are discernable after you get to know them better. even the same person carries a ever changing face. is it possible to look twice the same? every second we're changing, our face is changing, transforming, aging, recovering... in that sense a lomo is capturing a single moment in a face's history. a single moment of someone's life. one second later it's gone - and the face has changed...