Echolocation, Echolo…, Echo…

Dr. Lore Thaler, in her lab where she studies echolocation, at the Department of Psychology, University of Durham,, in Durham, England, 2025. ©Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert 2025.

Recent portraits of neuroscientist Dr. Lore Thaler, from Durham University, photographed on a recent assignment for Nature magazine. Lore studies echolocation, and making training of humans using echolocation more accessible.

If you fancy being an echolocator, or trying to navigate around in the dark, without the aid of sight, then there are some tips in the article which ran in Nature magazine, ‘Human Echolocation can Be Taught’.

Dr. Thaler had warned me in advance that her studio was dark, but on arrival it was amusing to see it wasn’t just dark, but absolutely pitch black. Always a thrill as a photographer to walk into a pitch black room with not a chink of light.

Here’s a few frames from the shoot, and how it look online, and was very similar in the magazine.