Floppy disks and film negatives get a second life as the canvases for British artist Nick Gentry's portraits. While his materials may consist of obsolete technology, the results are haunting and often curiously futuristic.


Infinite Echoes, 2009


Navigator, 2010

Auto Emotion, 2010


History, 2010


Status, 2010


Time Machine, 2011


Residual Memory, 2011


Lucid heart, 2011


Life Story, 2011


Super Killers, 2011


Klondike GZ, 2011


Profile Number 6, 2012


Profile Number 7, 2012


Lost Moments, 2012


D Base, 2013


American Heritage, 2013


Kaleidoscope, 2013


All We Are, 2013


Invader, 2013


Omega, 2013


Starlight, 2013


1978, 2014


Monarch, 2014


Freizeit, 2014


Deja vu, 2014


We Were There, 2014


M, 2014


Surface, 2014


Fade, 2014


Metropolis, 2014


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The images are from Nick Gentry's Flickr stream and Facebook page, except when noted otherwise.