Gary Schneider: Genetic Self-Portrait explores issues dealing with identity, photography, science, art and new technologies. The photographic installation of 14 works comprised of 55 prints is on view at the International Center of Photography, 1130 Fifth Avenue (at 94^th Street) from February 19 through April 9, 2000.

This project stems from an intriguing offer Schneider received in 1996 to make photographs in response to some of the revolutionary discoveries that were emerging from the Human Genome Project, an international research team that is attempting to map the more than 100,000 genes that compose human DNA. Combining his interests in self-portraiture and biology, Schneider consulted with doctors and geneticists, examined diagnostic and forensic photographs, as well as X rays, radiographs, photograms and micrographs of specimen samples of various parts of his own body.