17 April 2012

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TEN thousand pictures of people who live in the South East are needed for a project to help celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this summer.

BBC South East is creating The People’s Monarch, a huge photo mosaic of the Queen created from 10,000 photographs of people from Kent, Surrey and Sussex.BBC spokesman Jo Curtis said: “In essence it will be a huge portrait of the Queen made up of photos of people who send us their photographs, but we need them to come in at the rate of 250 a day if we are to reach our 10,000 deadline by 11 May.

The finished portrait will be the size of a double decker bus and will go on show at Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery from 25 May until 10 June.

Afterwards it will go to a location in Kent, details yet to be announced.

“Everyone who submits photos will get the chance to go along and find their photo on display in an art gallery or via our website where we will feature the finished artwork online and viewers will get the option to zoom in and out and find their picture in the composition.”

* Photos should be submitted online and can be old or recent, colour or black and white – as long as they are photographs of people.Please see the link to the project: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17516843 which explains at the bottom how you submit photos.