Images transform city's walls

Photos by Tarmo Hannula/Register-Pajaronian

WATSONVILLE — A section of downtown Watsonville took on a new look Sunday with the installation of 85 large black-and-white photographs.

Local students, parents, teachers, artists and community members rolled up their sleeves for the all-day task of gluing the photos to the exterior walls of four downtown buildings as part of the international Inside Out art project.

The project is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artwork. Each participant is challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world.

So far Inside Out has exhibited 78,187 photos, in 9,560 locations around the globe through 4,443 projects. The photos posted about town Sunday, which were all printed in France, are 3 by 5 feet and 6 by 10 feet.

In Watsonville, students from E.A. Hall Middle School, Ceiba Middle and High School and Renaissance High School, took part in the program in collaboration with Jean Beebe of the Pajaro Valley Arts Council. Instructors Daniel Levy and Karen Lemon helped the students learn to take the photographs, largely on Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras.

“This whole thing got started about six months ago in Watsonville,” Levy said.

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