Photo by Will Kirk / HIPS

University photographer Jay VanRensselaer, center, and students Amitabh "Amit" Chandra, Dilveer "DV" Vahali, Yvonne Gonzales and David Hung cut the ribbon for the opening of "The Faces of Hopkins," the photographic exhibit that will line Homewood's Gilman Tunnel through April 23. The shutterbugs snapped thousands of informal portraits that were winnowed down to the 550-plus strips — four per subject — on display. The project grew out of a portrait demonstration in VanRensselaer's Introduction to Photography class. "We started talking about this as a larger project that could put a human face on Hopkins," he said. "We both wanted to capture the diversity here, and show the people who make this place what it is." Also instrumental in the installation was Sunny Sahajwani, not pictured.

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