Michael Tummings – Artist in Residence @ Experimental Surgery – has released his latest book, Human Insights.

In this powerful work, Tummings turns his lens toward the operating theatre, capturing intimate moments of surgical intervention. His photographs explore the human body not as an object of clinical analysis, but as a site of vulnerability, resilience, and transformation. As noted by Jörg Christian Tonn, Tummings' work "reveals the mysteries of the body," offering entirely new perspectives on physical existence and the role of modern medicine.

With the consent of both patients and surgical teams of several university hospitals, Tummings was granted rare access to document procedures involving organ implants and artificial prostheses. The resulting imagery bridges the worlds of art and science, bringing us face-to-face with the beauty of the human body—beyond the rational and dissecting eye.

Human Insights invites viewers to reconsider how we see ourselves and our bodies, especially in moments of repair and healing.