As the crowd gathered at The Waco Bridge’s anniversary event on Oct. 2, a set of mounted photos stopped them in their tracks.
Displayed on movable walls were 10 photos, 2 by 3 feet in size, from previous and upcoming stories that our community engagement and events manager extraordinaire, Dominic Villa, had printed at Sticker Universe.
The Bridge team is looking to get these prints up in public spots around town. If you’d like to hang one in your place of business, please reach out to [email protected].
While the majority of readers view our work on their phones, seeing the photos up close and personal offered a new way to connect with the people we’re reporting on. You see the expressions on faces, the glint in their eyes, the decorations in their homes and small details that otherwise go overlooked.
Suddenly, you recognize yourself, your family, or a person you know in the photos, bringing it home that these are real people. These are our neighbors.
Below, you’ll get a chance to see some of the photos featured in the gallery.
One rewarding photo to view in a large format was made outside of Helados La Azteca on Franklin Avenue. At first glance, you may not notice Mike MacDonald from The Old 93 hand-painting a new sign in the background.
In Sam Shaw’s story about Waco’s new inclusive park, we spent time with 10-year-old Thomas “T3” Hawthorne and his mother, Courtney Davis. They explained how ramps and adaptive equipment can qualify a park to be ADA-compliant but if a ramp leads to wood chips, kids with disabilities don’t have full autonomy.
In the photo in the gallery below we see T3 having a blast swinging. A detail easily lost to small screens is his wheelchair left at the bottom of the ramp in the background.
