London based Photographer Brock has documented over 500 incredible subjects for his last five series of work. Individuals have kindly travelled to his home studio from six continents and over fifty countries to feature in Beard, Freckles, Vitiligo, CMN and most recently Scars. Brock's aim simply to celebrate and educate the unique individuals and raise body-positive and mental health awareness.

Bel from The Bay Area in the U.S. was born with an extremely rare type of Cleft. After her older sister Maia applied on her behalf for Brock Elbank's Scars portrait series in 2019, they both travelled to London to take part. Bel has had many ground-breaking surgeries during the first two decades of her life and works tirelessly to raise body-positive awareness for facial differences. After the body of work produced by Brock was posted on his @mrelbank Instagram page Bel received a phenomenal response to her images. Brock felt that Bel's journey to date really should be the very first episode of the Face Value with Brock Elbank podcast.

Episode 2 Daniel Sweig discusses his near fatal car crash in 2017 where he rolled his car at 100mph, lost his left eye and lived to share the tale with Brock Elbank. Daniel talks honestly with Brock about addiction, near death and that second chance at life.

'Caring Matters Now' Founder Jodi Whitehouse candidly chats with Brock about being born with at the time an unknown birthmark Congenital Melanocytic Nevus (CMN). Her early years of discovery, medical procedures, growing up feeling unique, to then forming Caring Matters Now, finding out about her skin and then contacting Brock in 2016 to embark of their 3 year journey to produce How Do You C Me Now? Which exhibited in March 2019 at the OXO Wharf Gallery to raise over £1M in body positive press globally. Jodi's relaxed and happy go lucky character shares the charity's goals and drive to keep supporting families around the world.

Trudy Hayes discusses going from what she thought was a perfect life in her mid-20s to near death after organ failure. Episode 4 of Face Value with Brock Elbank revisits Trudy's incredible journey, over 20,000 hours of dialysis, hitting rock bottom and her light-bulb moment to full recovery. Trudy sat for Brock's Scars series in 2019 and now runs Raven Beauty over in Ireland.

Sinead Soffe is the mother of Elizabeth (AKA Miss Cheeky Pants) the survivor of a horrific fire at less than 6 months old. Elizabeth sat for the Scars portrait series in July 2020. Brock talks with Sinead about the fallout after a faulty air-conditioning unit set the bedroom Elizabeth was in on fire. Elizabeth is simply amazing, funny, an inspiration to us all. Listen, learn and read this heart-breaking and honest letter penned by Liam and Sinead. “To all those who make our daughter’s life more difficult than it should be. To the parent who tried to remove my daughter from their child’s swimming lessons. To the mum who told me that children who look like my daughter would be locked away in her country. To the parents who watched their children refuse to hold my daughter’s hand and failed to intervene. To all adults who stare, double take, gawp day in, day out at our precious girl. I understand children staring. I understand children being curious because my daughter looks so different to them. I understand that they want to know why she has no fingers, why she has no hair, why she only has one ear, why her body is a patchwork of skin grafts. I understand this is normal for a child to want to question the world around them and find out the reason for things. What I do not understand is adults acting the way that they do around her. Why would an adult say ‘at least she won’t have to wear a Halloween mask’ or refuse to serve us at a supermarket till because she looked ‘scary’? Why would any adult think this is an acceptable way to behave? The worst part is that my daughter will have to deal with this her whole life, every single day, in every room that she walks into. Perhaps when she is older the blatant and rude comments will cease, but the stares, double takes, pointing and whispers never will. I fool myself into thinking that she doesn’t notice, that she is too young to realise that she is different and because she is only five it doesn’t matter to her. But this pretence will not last long. She will notice, she will be affected by it and I am sure that the sheer weight of it will wear her down. One day our daughter will go out in the world by herself and I will not be able to shield her from the realities of the world and from the people who think that her feelings don’t matter. My daughter is an amazing, strong, funny, determined, happy, intelligent child. I have seen her have the most profound positive impact on people just by meeting them and sharing a few brief moments. Liam and Sinead Soffe I learned early on that she will learn her reaction from me. If I challenge every person who points or whispers or grimaces, then she will. If I get angry or upset or aggressive, then so will she. And that is not the person I want her to be. I wish I could explain this to the adults who treat her differently – that their children learn their responses from them. That if they judge people by how they look then so will their children. These parents don’t attempt to show their children that our daughter is a little girl just like them. They don’t say, ‘why don’t you ask her what her name is?’ or ‘she looks about the same age as you, I wonder if she enjoys swimming as much as you do?’. Instead, their reaction is to remove this troubling difference from their children’s lives so that they do not risk them being upset or asking awkward questions. But they are the ones missing out. My daughter is an amazing, strong, funny, determined, happy, intelligent child. I have seen her have the most profound positive impact on people just by meeting them and sharing a few brief moments. People like Pete, her wig maker, who was immediately taken with her and offered to make wigs for her whole life, Sophie Countess of Wessex who met her at the opening of the burns research centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. These are the people I want my children to grow up around. People who embrace our differences. People who see through them and realise that in fact we are all the same. Yours faithfully, Liam & Sinead Soffe, parents of Elizabeth, aged five years old.”

Darina who I have had the pleasure of documenting twice spoke to me again recently before I shot her second portrait series. This person isn't just raising a young family, she's living with Cancer again and she does it with a smile and grace. This re-recorded episode 6 discusses everything but like with Darina a twinkle in the eye and light-hearted even though it's a heavy subject. I’m back again with a new scar and a new story. Since Brock photographed me last year, I’ve had a left side reconstruction called an LD Flap reconstruction. This is where the back muscle is ‘flung’ from the back, under the armpit and to the front to create a breast, leaving me with a glorious new scar! I have also been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer. Secondary breast cancer is unfortunately incurable, and I certainly didn’t expect to be diagnosed with it at the age of 29. This means the cancer has spread from the primary site of the breast to other parts of the body, in my case, my liver and bones. Since my secondary diagnosis in January 2022, I’ve had 2 lines of treatment. The first didn’t work, so my 2nd was chemotherapy. This partially worked, shrinking my cancer up to 75%, however a new lesion grew in my liver meaning I have to change treatment. I am still waiting for biopsy results to know my next plan. My aim is to raise as much awareness of secondary breast cancer as I can. Sounds naive, but I didn’t know anything about secondary breast cancer when I had primary breast cancer in 2019, and I feel that it needs to be talked about a lot more. Cancer doesn’t define who I am as a person. I have cancer, cancer does NOT have me.

Bashir 'Bash' Aziz has become friends with Brock since he documented Bash on Brock's birthday for Vitiligo in 2017, Brock recalls Bash was nearly 4 hours late and was one of the closest living subjects he's documented! Born with Vitiligo some also mention Piebald they candidly talk moving from Africa to England when very young, looking after his mum, going to school knowing you look different, football, art, shooting and embracing his appearance and everything in between. Brock and Bash have created a bond that's for sure..

Friend of Brock's for nearly 30 years Chris Finke editor of the podcast takes the role of host with the most to steer the Face Value ship by hand-picking the mailbag of questions for this one off Ep11.