Facing up to the future
Of all the capital cities in Australia, Sydney has the highest proportion speaking non-English languages (around 29 per cent or 1.2 million) and the highest proportion born overseas – almost one third. It makes our city a glorious collision of colours, creeds and cultural beliefs. This melting pot of faces led the City of Sydney to assimilate portraits of 3,500 of the 160,000 villagers from Pyrmont, Millers Point, Rosebery, Redfern, Waterloo, Newtown, East Sydney, Glebe, The Rocks, Ultimo, Haymarket, CBD and Alexandria for the face of the future Sydneysider – a vision unfettered by the individual’s age, race, health, religion, income or occupation. Using a digital manipulation program, the portraits – ranging in age from 93 to two weeks – were meticulously layered, one over the other, creating the composite portrait of the future Sydney male and female. Each emerged subtly different but eerily accurate, a revelatory reflection of our street skins. These images capture the hidden cogs in a magnificent Sydney machine – ordinary folk but extraordinary in their own way.
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Future Haymarket
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Future Redfern
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Future Surry Hills
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Future Rocks
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