The Face of Sydney
Let’s Face It – Sydney’s City of Villages
Faces of Sydney (Click to enlarge)
Faces of Haymarket (Click to enlarge)
Using specialist techniques, thousands of portraits of individual people have been compacted to provide a representative male and female “look” for the 160,000 residents of Sydney’s City of Villages.
A few Face of Sydney project participants. (Click to see more)
Making of the Face of Sydney
Faces of Redfern (Click to enlarge)
- People were drawn from Pyrmont, Millers Point, Rosebery, Redfern, Waterloo, Newtown, East Sydney, Glebe, The Rocks, Ultimo, Haymarket, CBD and Alexandria.
- The oldest was 93 and the youngest two weeks.
- Some 54 per cent of participants described their ancestry as Anglo Saxon Celtic, 3 per cent as Indigenous Australians, 4 per cent as having South American ancestry and 11 per cent Chinese ancestry.
- Participants reflected the diverse or homogenous ethnic origins and age structure of the local population.
Faces of Surry Hills (Click to enlarge)
“The Local Action Plans scheme is all about doing things to protect and improve the characteristics of all the various areas that make up our City of Villages - for the people who live and work in those areas, day in and day out,” said the Lord Mayor, Clover Moore MP
“Putting a collective face to all those people helps reinforce the human scale of this very important scheme, which ranges from now to many years to come.”
Faces of The Rocks & Millers Point (Click to enlarge)
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