Bard College Berlin (BCB) student Cazmir Leenheer received an EHCN student research grant to complete the creative component of her senior project. Cazmir exhibited her work as part of BCB Open Studios, a semi-annual event showcasing students' art projects. In the creative component of her thesis project, Leenheer critically reflects on Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy of the “face” and asks whether it can offer meaningful insights for what it means to be a responsible human when confronted with images of faces in contemporary society. Relating Levinas’ conception of the Other’s face to observations about human capacity to respond to another’s alterity, the project explores whether facing an image can indeed provoke an ethical encounter—leading to a more justice oriented engagement with art. The duality that belongs to vision and to the face is made explicit when looking at photographs. “The Gulf Between Us” crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; it is positioned at the intersection between philosophy and the visual arts. The student’s portraits of her immediate family demonstrate a capacity for humility through estrangement and facilitate experiential learning.