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Installation by The People’s Picture Opens Today | Amineddoleh & Associates | 2021
Today marks the exciting launch of a creative collaboration between The People’s Picture and America250 for its November Salute 2021 exhibition. The People’s Picture, our client, is a photography and design studio focusing on cutting-edge projects that meld design and...
In Sitka, ‘America250’ finds a community ahead of the reconciliation curve | Raven Radio | 2021
“America250” is planning a multi-year celebration that will culminate on July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the United States. The nonprofit partner of the US Semiquincentennial Commission, America250 is reaching out to communities across the country for ideas...
National WWI Museum and Memorial honors veterans in person for Veterans Day | KSHB 41 News | 2021
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The National World War I Museum and Memorial has a full Veterans Day schedule of ceremonies and observances to commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the signing of the Armistice ending the war, as well as the 100th anniversary of the site dedication...
World War I Museum pays tribute to an ‘often-forgotten’ hero with faces of Kansas City veterans | KCUR | 2021
Pvt. Henry Johnson, a Harlem Hellfighter and World War I hero, was denied recognition by the U.S. military until decades after his death. For Veterans Day, a mural at Kansas City's World War I Museum and Memorial immortalizes Johnson's story. Read the full article by...
Events Celebrating Apollo’s 50th Anniversary | NASA| 2019
July 20, 2019, Times Square to transform into Tranquility Base, the Moon landing site, in honor of 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11, Times Square – New York City, NY (Father Duffy Square in Times Square – 7th Ave &, W 47th St, New York, NY 100369 AM – 11:59 PM ET The...
A 1,000 square foot mosaic of Ida B. Wells is being installed at Union Station in DC | CNN | 2020
(CNN) — It's been 100 years since American women were granted the right to vote. To commemorate this milestone, a massive mosaic of suffragist and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells, is being installed on the floor of Union Station in Washington DC. But if you look...
Apollo 11 Anniversary: How to Celebrate This Weekend | The New York Times | 2019
Summer is usually the season of sun worship, but this weekend that star will be eclipsed — at least in many hearts — by the moon. Saturday brings the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first mission to send astronauts to the lunar surface, and festivals, exhibitions,...
Art installation celebrating NHS ‘stories of hope’ launches in Piccadilly Circus | Evening Standard | 2020
Art installation celebrating “stories of hope” from the NHS has been launched in Piccadilly Circus. From Monday, more than 12,000 photos and stories will be displayed at the iconic London hotspot. They have all been collected from key workers, carers, patients and NHS...
News Hour | BBC World Service | 2021
Listen to FORMAT Director Louise Fedotov-Clements speak about the Mass Isolation FORMAT project.
Woman chosen as Face of Liberation ‘overwhelmed’ | BBC News | 2020
Barbara Jouanny, 92, has been revealed as Jersey's Face of Liberation. She was one of more than 6,000 people who sent in a photograph of themselves to form the giant collage. The pictures were then pieced together to make the face of a teenage Ms Jouanny. The Face was...
Ida B. Wells gets her due as a Black suffragist who rejected movement’s racism | Washington Post | 2020
Her image is arresting. Hundreds of people walking through Washington’s Union Station this week paused to look at the huge photo mosaic of anti-lynching crusader and suffragist Ida B. Wells-Barnett on the marble floor. Read the full article here
Photos on QUAD’s building launches 10th edition of FORMAT International Photography Festival | ArtDaily | 2021
This week a giant photo mosaic has been unveiled on the outside of QUAD in Derby as part of the #massisolationFORMAT project at FORMAT21 International Photography Festival. Created and produced by The People's Picture for FORMAT21, the photo mosaic is composed of a...
Pictures of the Day | The Telegraph | 2018
A giant 65ft mosaic portrait of militant Suffragette Hilda Burkitt has been unveiled in the atrium of Grand Central at Birmingham New Street Station. The mosaic is made up of 3,724 photos submitted by members of the public to create the Named face of...
The Face of Liberation | BBC News | 2020
Some Islanders may not have been able to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Liberation as planned, but today the largest piece of community art ever created in Jersey was revealed to capture the spirit of liberation, bringing together 6,000 Islanders to celebrate one...
The Face of Suffrage | Royal Photographic Society | 2018
In 1918, after years of campaigning, women were granted the right to vote. One hundred years on, women and girls* across the region and beyond are invited to mark this historic moment as part of a living visual portrait of women in the 21st century. The...
NHS ‘stories of hope’ light up London’s Piccadilly Circus | ITV News | 2020
Launching on Monday, more than 12,000 photos and stories have been collected for the project from key workers, carers, patients and NHS staff, which will be displayed at the central London location. The Rainbows For The NHS installation, which was described as a...
Giant Photo Mosaic Revealed for FORMAT21 Festival | QUAD | 2021
This week a giant photo mosaic has been unveiled on the outside of QUAD in Derby as part of the #massisolationFORMAT project at FORMAT21 International Photography Festival. Created and produced by The People's Picture for FORMAT21, the photo mosaic is composed of a...
Derbyshire’s international photography festival FORMAT21 explores response to Covid pandemic | Derbyshire Times | 2021
A mass participation archive of the world’s response to Covid-19, featuring a selection of 40,000 images submitted from around the globe by professional and amateur photographers and members of the public features in the tenth edition of the festival. Read the...
#massisolationFORMAT | FORMAT21| 2021
FORMAT21 reveals Lovers has been selected from over 40,000 images as the focus image for the #massisolationFORMAT giant photo mosaic. Lovers was shot by Argentian photographers Luisa Magdalena and Nahuel Alfonso and inspired by Renè Magritte’s painting Les Amants. A...
FORMAT International Photography Festival returns with both a physical and virtual programme, more expansive than ever before|1864 | 2021
The theme for the 2021 edition of FORMAT – Britain’s largest festival of international photography, held biennially in Derby since 2004 – is Control. “Control has so many dimensions,” says the festival’s founder and director, Louise Fedotov-Clements. Read the full...
The Face of Liberation | ITV News | 2020
This mosaic marking 75 years of freedom has been unvieled in Jersey. Situated near Liberation Square, the 'Face of Liberation' features more than 6,000 photos of Islanders past and present. But there's one face that's more conspicuous than all the others - Sophie...
Exhibitions | Red Eye | 2018
Birmingham New Street is to host a unique art installation which celebrates 100 years since women were first allowed to vote.The 'Face of Suffrage' artwork will be a floor-based, 200-metre square photo mosaic consisting of more than 3,500 images of females...
Mosaic Memory | BBC News | 2020
A 1,000-square-foot mosaic of civil rights leader, suffragist, and anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells will be at Union Station starting Monday, August 24. The art installation features tiles illustrating 5,000 historic photographs that altogether depict a portrait of...
Liberation Revealed | Jersey Evening Post | 2020
The large mural to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Island's Liberation deom German forces is to be unveiled today - with 92-year-old Barbara Jouanny chosen as the Face of Liberation. Mrs Jouanny's Occupation identity card photo was chosen from more than 6,000...
We Heart: Ida B. Wells, Suffragists to be Honored in Photo Mosaic at D.C.’s Union Station | MS Magazine | 2020
“Our Story: Portraits of Change” is an interactive photo mosaic and art installation depicting a portrait of suffragist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells—on display in Union Station in Washington, D.C., from August 24-28. The 1,000 square-foot mosaic will be...
‘Face of Liberation’ community artwork project unveiled in Jersey | ITV News | 2020
Jersey's largest piece of community artwork will be revealed to the public today. "The Face of Liberation" is being unveiled to celebrate 75 years since the island was freed from Occupation. It was due to be shown in April but was delayed due to coronavirus. The huge...
Global Citizen Magazine | Artistic Explorations | 2020
From Earth to Space, from the USA to the UK, from science to art, The People's Moon brings hope beyond borders to show the power of human interconnectedness. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 fulfilled the dreams of humanity by landing on the Moon. As Armstrong took his...
Unveiling the Face | Jersey Evening Post | 2020
When artist Helen Marshall looked through 50 photographs of elderly Islanders taken by a photographer on a single day earlier this year, one face stood out as the face of the child she had seen previously on the Occupation identity card. It was the face of Barbara...
The Times | Going Back to the Moon: NASA Veterans Help Prepare for a New Lunar Mission | 2019
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission will be marked at landmarks including the Washington Monument, Times Square in New York and the satellite tracking station in Australia that relayed footage of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. At the Kennedy Space...
Ocean Outdoor | Piccadilly Lights launches open call to create a giant rainbow mosaic | 2020
‘The People’s Picture’ is calling for pictures, videos and stories to create a giant interactive rainbow of “hope” made up of thousands of NHS staff, key workers and carers combined with the nation’s photos. The art project, called Rainbows for the NHS, was officially...
Documentary Magazine | ‘The People’s Moon’: A Collective Memory in Mosaic and VR | 2019
On July 20, 2019 at 2:56 p.m. UTC, it will be 50 years to the minute from when a human being stepped onto the moon for the first time. NASA’s successful Apollo 11 mission will have—at a time of uncertainty the world over—brought an entire planet’s population together,...
BBC South East Today | Rainbows for the NHS | 2020
You may well remember back in 2012 how we all help to create an amazing photo mosaic of the queen called The People's Monarch, well now the artist behind it is creating another huge mosaic in the shape of a rainbow to mark the way we've managed to get through the...
Channel 103 | Mosaic of Islanders Form Face of Liberation | 2020
Jersey's largest piece of community artwork ever created has finally been revealed. The work was due to be unveiled in April but was postponed due to the 'Stay at Home' order that was in place at the time because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Face of Liberation is...
Bailiwick Express | Meet Barbara, the Face of Liberation… | 2020
The 'Face of Liberation' photo mosaic covers over 1,000 square feet of wall space outside Liberation Bus Station and features 6,070 faces of Jersey residents from the past and present. Seen together, the individual faces form an image of Barbara Joan Jouanny (née...
Radio 4 Today Show | The People’s Moon | 2019
Click here to listen to The People’s Moon interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
Jersey Evening Post | Unveiled: Barbara is the Face of Liberation | 2020
Mrs Jouanny’s Occupation identity card photo was chosen from more than 6,000 images contributed by Islanders in the quest to identify a face representing Liberation 75. Her face as a child, recreated in a mosaic from the individual images of her fellow Islanders, will...
Washington News 4 | Mosaic at Union Station Honors Pioneering Civil Rights Leader Ida B. Wells | 2020
A mosaic at Union Station honors civil rights icon Ida B. Wells. Tommy McFly reports. Click the video below to watch the full story.
Timeless tale ‘The Snowman’ celebrates 40th birthday | ITV News | 2018
The artwork from a story loved by parents and children has gone on display in Brighton to celebrate its 40th birthday.The Snowman has sold more than five million copies worldwide. Now, Raymond Briggs' iconic story is being exhibited at the Brighton Museum...
A Massive Ida B. Wells Mosaic Is Coming to Union Station | Washingtonian | 2020
A 1,000-square-foot mosaic of civil rights leader, suffragist, and anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells will be at Union Station starting Monday, August 24. The art installation, “Our Story: Portraits of Change Mosaic of Ida B. Wells,” features tiles illustrating 5,000...
Space.com | Apollo 50th Celebrations to Span 50 States | 2019
On July 20, 1969, the public gathered in New York City’s Times Square to witness the first boot prints being made on the lunar surface. Fifty years later, the moon is coming to Manhattan in the form of a boot print made by the people. Artist Helen Marshall of The...
Massive portrait honoring civil rights leader Ida B. Wells coming to Union Station | FOX 5 | 2020
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A massive art installation honoring iconic suffragist and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells is coming to Union Station. The 1,000 square-foot mosaic, titled Our Story: Portraits of Change, is comprised of thousands of historical photos of...
Daily Mail | The Next Giant Leap | 2019
On Saturday, Pence, Aldrin and Armstrong’s older son, Rick, visited the Apollo 11 launch pad, now leased by SpaceX, and the building now named for Armstrong where the astronauts suited up for lift-off on July 16, 1969. In New York City, organizers moved a moon-landing...
Eight year old Hastings girl lights up London’s Piccadilly Circus as part of national tribute to the NHS | Observer | 2020
Eight year old Summer Finlay from Hastings featured on the big screen at London’s Piccadilly Circus in a tribute to the NHS for its 72nd birthday. It came about after artist Helen Marshall, from The People’s Picture, created a huge video mosaic in the shape of a...
Express & Star | NHS stories of ‘hope’ displayed at London’s Piccadilly Circus | 2020
A photo project celebrating “stories of hope” from the NHS is being screened at London’s Piccadilly Circus. Launching on Monday, more than 12,000 photos and stories have been collected for the project from key workers, carers, patients and NHS staff, which will be...
The Gazette | The Latest | 2020
A young boy holds a painted rainbow as pictures appear on a screen during a 10 minute domination on The Piccadilly Lights, Piccadilly Circus, to mark the launch of The People's Picture interactive mosaic art project Rainbows for the NHS in London, Monday, June 22,...
Jersey Evening Post | Strong Response to Call for Images for Public Art Project | 2020
Jersey will have a 'really stunning' visual exhibition when a public art project transforms the historic site of the Liberation celebrations near Weighbridge, according to the artist leading the project. Speaking less than a month ahead of the deadline for...
Jersey Evening Post | Almost 1000 Photographs Received for Face of Liberation | 2020
Images of almost 1,000 people have so far been submitted as part of a community art project to mark this year's Liberation 75 celebration. ArtHouse Jersey is aiming to produce the largest piece of public participative art ever seen in the Island and is asking people...
Jersey Evening Post | Celebrating Our Freedom | 2020
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Liberation, ArtHouse Jersey is launcing what it hopes will be the biggest community art project the Islands has seen and is calling on everyone to get involved.
Giant suffragette portrait made of selfies wows crowds in Birmingham | Caters News | 2018
An impressive mosaic depicting the face of a suffragette created made by selfies and photographs of historical women from the 1900s, has been unveiled in the centre of Birmingham. Hilda Burkitt’s face has been turned into a 65ft piece of art on the floor...
ITV News | Thousands of Selfies Wanted for Lib75 Project in Jersey | 2020
Thousands of selfies are wanted to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Liberation. ArtHouse Jersey has already had over 100 submissions for its project 'Face of Liberation'. Launched last week, it aims to create one large face made up of up to 10,000 smaller ones...
ITV News | The Face of Liberation | 2020
Thousands of selfies wanted for Liberation 75 project in Jersey. Click the video below to watch the full story.
The Sun | Washington Moonument lit up by Spectacular Footage of Moon Landing to mark 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 | 2019
Piccadilly Circus in Central London also paid homage to the moon landing. Hundreds gathered to watch as Armstrong’s first steps on the moon were projected onto the iconic London building. Click here to read the full article.
Raymond Briggs brings originals from his classic children’s book to Brighton | The Argus | 2018
The Snowman is a staple of most youngsters’ bookshelves and has captured the imagination of people across the world.The book was first published in 1978 and is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.Now its Sussex-based author Raymond Briggs, along...
BBC London | Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing with Tom Kerss & Helen Marshall | 2019
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing with Tom Kerss and Helen Marshall.
Unique ‘Face of Suffrage’ artwork unveiled at Birmingham New Street station | Network Rail | 2018
A stunning art installation marking 100 years since women were first given the right to vote has been unveiled at Birmingham New Street station.The ‘Face of Suffrage’ artwork, a floor-based, 200 metre-square photo mosaic, is made up of more than 3,700...
IDA | ‘The People’s Moon’: A Collective Memory in Mosaic and VR | 2019
On July 20, 2019 at 2:56 p.m. UTC, it will be 50 years to the minute from when a human being stepped onto the moon for the first time. NASA’s successful Apollo 11 mission will have—at a time of uncertainty the world over—brought an entire planet’s population together,...
Last chance to see hugely popular ‘Face of Suffrage’ | Network Rail | 2018
Passengers and visitors to Birmingham New Street station have just four days left to see the stunning ‘Face of Suffrage’ art installation.By the end of this week an estimated 5.4 million people will have passed through the station and had the chance to see...
The Snowman to be commemorated with mural | License Global | 2018
Penguin Ventures has paired with The People’s Picture to create a large-scale mosaic of the flying scene from Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman in honor of the book’s 40th anniversary.The image will be composed of thousands of individual photos, which fans are...
Women’s selfies sought for giant Face of Suffrage artwork | BBC News | 2018
Photos of thousands of girls and women are to form a giant mosaic of a suffragette to mark 100 years since the first British women won the vote. Artist Helen Marshall called for selfies and photos of women in people's lives "you wish to celebrate" for the...
Public art project to mark The Snowman at 40 | Licensing Source | 2018
Fans of the brand are being asked to share their memories for photo mosaic.As the celebrations continue for the 40th anniversary of The Snowman, Penguin Ventures has partnered with The People’s Picture to create a giant mosaic of the iconic ‘flying scene’...
The “My Snowman” Project | The Snowman | 2018
The People’s Picture is creating a giant photo mosaic of The Snowman to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original picture book.It will be compiled from your festive photos; preparing for this year and your memories from the past 40 years. The photo...
Snaps pour in for The Snowman mosaic | LTW Media | 2018
Penguin Ventures is considering the bigger picture this Christmas, teaming up with The Peoples Picture to create a giant mosaic replica of the original storybook’s iconic flying scene. The collage is part of this years 40th anniversary activity and fans are invited to...
The Face of Suffrage at Birmingham New Street Station | Royal Photographic Society | 2018
‘The Face of Suffrage’, at Birmingham New Street, is a floor-based 200 metre-square photo mosaic revealing the face of a Suffragette with a ‘daring and brave’ story to tell. It is made up of more than 3,700 photos of women and girls submitted by the...
Giant mosaic of famous suffragette unveiled at New Street Station | Birmingham Mail | 2018
A giant mosaic of a famous suffragette has been unveiled inside Birmingham New Street station, metres from where she threw a stone at a former-Prime Minister's train.The 20m (65ft) portrait of Hilda Burkitt was painstakingly put together using 3,724 photos...
Three Black Country suffragettes feature in unique Birmingham station artwork | Express & Star | 2018
The floor-based 200 metre-square photo mosaic, the 'Face of Suffrage', is made up of more than 3,700 images of women.When the artwork is viewed from above, it shows Wolverhampton-born Hilda Burkitt – a leading face from the suffrage movement in the West...
The Face of Suffrage | Photo Monitor | 2018
Miranda Gavin / Helen Marshall: The Face of SuffrageNovember 2018“She sits within a prison cellDespised and splendid, great, defamed.Shame close about her, and withallShameless and unashamed”. – Hilda Burkitt, written in prison: Winson Green 1909 (1 month)...
The women making waves this week | Stylist | 2018
A mosaic of suffragette Hilda Burkett was unveiled at Birmingham New Street station on Thursday (15 November). Poetically located at the spot where Burkett threw a stone at Prime Minster Herbert Asquith’s train in 1909, the portrait is made up of 3,724...
Thousands of selfies help create mosaic of suffragette | ITV | 2018
An art installation marking 100 years since women were given the vote has been unveiled at Birmingham New Street station.The floor-based artwork called "The Face of Suffrage" is made of a mosaic of more than 3,700 images of women from across the West...
The stories behind the Face of Suffrage artwork | BBC | 2018
Thousands of photos will form a giant mosaic of a suffragette to mark 100 years since British women won the vote. Here are just some of the stories behind the pictures about to go on show. Illustrator Megan Price has such belief in the suffrage movement she has a...
The Face of Suffrage | BBC Midlands Today | 2018
BBC Midlands Today "Calling all women and girls, time's running out if you want to be part of a giant mosaic that will be going up in New Street Station in Birmingham."Click the video below to watch the full story.