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Frederick “Rusty” Gage has spent his life asking a question many neuroscientists once considered heretical: can the adult brain grow new neurons?
When I photographed him at the Salk Institute in February 2026, that question felt less like rebellion and more like legacy. We made portraits in his study overlooking the Pacific, a quiet room washed in coastal light. The ocean moved below the cliffs in long, steady breaths. It is the same office once occupied by Jonas Salk, who recruited Rusty decades ago. The desk, the view, the gravity of the place. You feel it immediately. History is not abstract there. It presses in from the walls.
In the late twentieth century, neuroscience was built on a stark premise: you are born with a fixed number of neurons. Damage them and they are gone. Memory fades. Injury lingers. Aging narrows possibility. Rusty challenged that dogma with careful, methodical experiments that showed new neurons could, in fact, form in the adult hippocampus. The implications were enormous. Learning, mood, resilience, even the biology of hope took on new dimensions.
In person, what strikes you first is his attentiveness. He leans in slightly when you speak, hands folded, eyes steady behind round glasses. There is warmth in him that feels unforced. Soft spoken, yes, but never distant. You sense a mind that is constantly mapping connections, not only between neurons but between people. Students drift in and out of his orbit with ease. Colleagues seek him out. He listens more than he declares.
The study itself holds layers of meaning. Jonas Salk built the institute as a place where scientists could think expansively, where architecture and intellect met the horizon. Standing in that room with Rusty, you understand that recruitment was more than a hire. It was a passing of trust. Salk had imagined a future for biology that included imagination and risk. Rusty carried that forward into the living brain.
His work has since expanded beyond neurogenesis into how the genome shapes the nervous system over time. His lab explores mosaicism in the brain, the idea that our neurons are not genetically identical but subtly varied. The brain becomes not a static organ but a dynamic landscape, shaped by experience and by the restless choreography of DNA. It is a vision of the self that is fluid and intricate.
Photographing him in that office felt less like documenting a single scientist and more like tracing a lineage. Salk sought a vaccine that would protect children from paralysis. Rusty sought evidence that the adult brain was not condemned to decline. Both projects required a certain stubborn optimism. A belief that the body holds more possibility than we assume.
The weight of history was there, yes. But so was something lighter. A current of curiosity that refuses to settle. In Rusty Gage’s presence, you feel that science is not a monument. It is a conversation, still unfolding, with the ocean as witness.
14. Your earliest memory
The earliest thing I remember was when I was about 2 or 3 and I was playing with these little toy cars, similar to the one's in the picture but they were plastic, I was playing with them on the living room's coffee table. :P
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Title: Northwest Medicine, 27, (1928)
Creator: Northwest Medical Publication Association
Creator: Washington Medical Library Association
Publisher: [Seattle] : Northwest Medical Pub. Association.
Sponsor: The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arcadia Fund
Contributor: Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date: 1928
Vol: 27, (1928)
Language: eng
Description: The official journal of the Northwest Medical Publication Association and the Washington Medical Library Association, featuring case studies, original research, reviews, articles, essays, and advertisements.
Continues: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of Washington
Organ at various times of the state medical associations of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.
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This execution marked a shortlived turning point in advertising strategy for the World RPS Society. Instead of bludgeoning viewers with strong clear simple mesages as they had done in the past, a more subtle approach was explored.
While this execution went on to win many industry awards for it's thought-provocking approach and was appauled for not "insulting the intelligence of its viewer", for the most part, this execution went far over the heads of the intended audience
As Bear and I approached the end of our hike, perched high on boulders beside the trail were several volunteers greeting visitors to the park. They patiently answered questions they must get asked over and over and over, like "What trails are good for beginners?", "Are there really rattlesnakes here?", and "Why didn't the eagles fly Sam & Frodo to Mordor?"
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“Estamos falando sobre a importância do uso da máscara, que é uma proteção pessoal para todos. Só usando máscara corretamente e higienizando as mãos, que vamos conseguir combater esse vírus. E aqui em Nova Contagem, vimos muitas pessoas transitando na rua o tempo inteiro sem usar máscara, então nossa equipe está abordando esse cidadão, conversando com ele e entregando a máscara para ele poder se proteger e proteger o outro”, informa.
Gilvan afirma que de forma geral, muitas pessoas esquecem a necessidade de usar o acessório que é indispensável e essencial nesse momento pandêmico. “Nós rodamos a cidade toda e uma boa parcela da população que abordamos fala que está com a máscara, mas ela está no bolso. Então nós temos tentado fazer essa conscientização, conversar com quem está sem máscara na rua explicando a gravidade dessa doença e a necessidade de se proteger e parabenizando aqueles que usam, porque isso incentiva as pessoas a usarem ainda mais e se protegerem ainda mais”, afirma.
Moradora de Nova Contagem a muitos anos, a senhora Raimunda Nazaré Thomaz aprovou a iniciativa da Prefeitura. “Infelizmente as pessoas ou não têm noção da gravidade da situação, ou estão fingindo que não estão vendo. A Prefeitura faz um trabalho muito bom, estão de parabéns, mas sozinha ela não consegue, as pessoas precisam parar de agir como se nada estivesse acontecendo. Não podemos fechar tudo, nosso povo precisa comer, pagar as contas, mas também não podem agir do jeito que estão agindo. Eu só queria que as pessoas tivessem mais consciência”, afirma.
Luan Fortunato da Costa faz parte da equipe de mobilização e esteve presente na ação em Nova Contagem. Ele afirma que a aceitação das pessoas tem sido muito boa. “As pessoas quando nos veem pensam que estamos vendendo mascaras, mas quando falamos que é uma ação promovida pela Prefeitura e estamos distribuindo esse material, as pessoas se interessam, nos ouvem e muitos até nos fazem questionamentos. Está sendo uma campanha muito positiva e os resultados muito bons”, finaliza.
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