Holographic Portraits

Painting and sculpture has been used to immortalise humanity for thousands of years. Artist and holographer Rob Munday has advanced this tradition into the 21st century by using the most exciting and profound method of recording portraits ever invented - holography.

Sitters for a painting have to remain motionless for hours at a time. The resemblance of the person to the painted portrait depends entirely upon the competence of the painter. With photography, times have been reduced to less than a second and a true and faithful representation of a person can be recorded, at least in two dimensions. The most recent development in the quest for the perfect portrait is holography. Using holography it is possible to create a stunningly realistic three-dimensional portrait which captures the exact likeness of a person like never before. A hologram can be so realistic that people are often fooled into thinking that the person is really there.

Spatial Imaging has pioneered two types of portrait holography, Laser Holography and Holographic Stereography, and currently operates the only holographic portrait studio in the UK.