File:Bryan Johnson kernel flow.jpg

photograph · 2020

type:photograph

year:2020

citation:Ray, Katriece. 'Bryan Johnson kernel flow.jpg.' Photograph, 1 October 2020. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

LINK

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bryan_Johnson_kernel_flow.jpg

SUMMARY

Wikimedia Commons file record for a photograph of Bryan Johnson wearing a Kernel Flow neuroimaging headset, dated 1 October 2020, credited to photographer Katriece Ray, marked as an original work. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 (attribution plus share-alike; confirmed by direct fetch of the file page). The Kernel Flow headset is a wearable brain-monitoring device made by Kernel, the neurotechnology company Johnson founded in 2016, five years before Project Blueprint; the photo predates Blueprint but documents Johnson's broader self-quantification apparatus and the personal capital base (Kernel, OS Fund) discussed in the practitioner entity. The Commons record itself identifies the subject as Bryan Johnson, satisfying the identification-basis requirement for the Media entity's caption.

NOTES

The Commons file page directly names the subject as Bryan Johnson and states the CC BY-SA 3.0 license, photographer, source, and date. The image is used as the case’s object-role asset, documenting the wearable self-quantification hardware that is part of Johnson’s broader biography rather than a Blueprint-branded product photo, and the caption is written to reflect that distinction rather than implying it is a Blueprint product shot. This is a Commons-only source with no onward link to a holding institution; npm run media-search was run against all four supported archives (Wellcome, Library of Congress, BnF/Gallica, Wikimedia Commons) for this contemporary living subject on 2026-07-01, and none of the three institutional archives returned a usable candidate, so the Commons-only provenance is an accepted, documented residual rather than an unexplained gap.