# Portrait sources and treatment · September 28, 2026

The new Ingredients biographies now use matching AI-assisted black-ink stipple and crosshatch illustrations for Lauren Lee McCarthy, Tega Brain, and Gene Kogan. Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman retain their existing treated portraits. This is a treatment of reference photographs, not a claim that the illustrations are documentary photographs or artist-approved likenesses.

## Source photographs

- Lauren Lee McCarthy: [Eyebeam profile](https://eyebeam.org/artists/lauren-lee-mccarthy/). The original profile photograph is preserved at `/notes/ingredients/portraits/lauren-lee-mccarthy.jpg`; the generated version is `/notes/ingredients/portraits/lauren-lee-mccarthy-stippled.png`.
- Tega Brain: [Eyebeam profile](https://eyebeam.org/artists/tega-brain/). Original: `/notes/ingredients/portraits/tega-brain.jpg`; generated: `/notes/ingredients/portraits/tega-brain-stippled.png`.
- Gene Kogan: [AUTOMATA artist profile](https://www.automata.art/artists/gene-kogan/). Original: `/notes/ingredients/portrait-sources/gene-kogan-photo.jpg`; generated: `/notes/ingredients/portraits/gene-kogan-stippled.png`.

Photographers were not identified in the retrieved pages for these three reference photographs. The manifest preserves their exact image URLs and publisher pages. We do not transfer a credit or license from a different photograph. Source-image rights remain with their holders; public availability alone does not establish an open license. Generated treatments do not erase underlying rights.

All three outputs were visually compared with their reference photographs for face, pose, hair, and recognizable features. The existing Golan Levin portrait was supplied only as a rendering-style reference. Original photographs remain available separately. The exact prompts and generation method are recorded in `portrait-prompts.json`. No bios were generated from appearances; biographies continue to cite textual sources.

## Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia is an explicit biography and research route in the overlays. New links were checked for [Lauren McCarthy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_McCarthy), [Tega Brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tega_Brain), [Golan Levin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Levin), and [Zachary Lieberman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Lieberman). Existing Wikipedia biography URLs in the portrait manifest are also exposed as labeled biography links. Existing records are retained as imported research, not silently declared newly fact-checked.

The [Commons Lauren Lee McCarthy file](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lauren_Lee_McCarthy.jpg) credits Gabriel Noguez and lists CC BY-SA 4.0. That is a different photograph from the Eyebeam reference used here. Its page was inspected but its original file could not be retrieved in this run; it is a future source option, not the basis for the generated illustration. Any future adaptation using that file must retain its photographer attribution, license link, and change notice, and satisfy the stated share-alike terms.

No matching Gene Kogan Wikipedia biography was established. Search results for similarly named people were not treated as his identity. His biography and photograph instead link to identified artist and institutional records.

## Coverage and next references

There are 91 portrait-bearing contributors among the 105 people credited in recipes. Fourteen still lack a verified portrait reference in this catalog, listed in `portrait-coverage.json`. A missing portrait is not a missing contribution: names, roles, and recipe evidence remain visible.

For each future reference: confirm the named subject using a biography or institutional record; record the photograph's file page, photographer, and license where stated; inspect the image; apply the matching image-generation treatment; preserve the original and exact prompt; label the result AI-assisted; and publish both the source record and asset. Never substitute an unrelated person or generate a likeness from a name alone.

## Complete Eyebeam roster, September28 update

All eight Eyebeam connections have illustrated headshots. Kyle McDonald, Taeyoon Choi and Yury Gitman now join the existing five portraits. New sources: Eyebeam for Kyle; YCAM’s Allyson Lupovich photograph for Taeyoon; Yury’s Parsons faculty page with a New School-hosted image. Each new treatment uses the built-in image-generation tool, retains its photographic reference and credit, and is visibly labeled AI-assisted. Exact prompts are in portrait-prompts.json; source metadata and rights caveats are in portrait-map.json. No general reuse license is inferred from public availability.