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Heard of face blindness? Prosopagnosia makes it hard to recognise faces | Compass | ABC Australia
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10:19Now PlayingSuccessful photographer Toby Burrows is thrown into a confronting journey of self-discovery when he learns he may have a neurological disorder called prosopagnosia.
Toby invites people with prosopagnosia, a condition that makes it difficult to recognise faces, into his studio to take their portraits and listen to their story of living with it.
It’s estimated that around one in fifty Australian adults might have prosopagnosia.
What is life like when you don’t recognise the faces of people you know and love?
Dorothea describes a ‘huge disjunct between me and the world. There was something I just could not get a grip on. And it was to do with how you connect with the world.’
Peter observes that ‘All faces a different but so are feet and hands but you don't recognize people by their feet and hands. I've just never understood why people have this preoccupation with remembering people by their faces.'
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