Caracas neighborhood joins worldwide art project

community of Petare neighbourhood of Venezuela's capital will soon be stars of a global photographic art project.

Some 2,000 locals will be featured in black and white portraits that will be displayed on walls of ir district.

Petare is one of largest low-income settlements in Latin America, a place often associated with violence and armed gangs.

But "Inside Out" artistic initiative aims to change that.

Inside Out helps global communities create art installations by displaying large-scale portraits of residents in public s.

Community leer Katiuska Camargo and photographer Juan Calero are running Petare project.

latter explains initiative will help present real people of community to a wider world.

"We will make portrait photography from inside communities around world, outward, to world," Calero says.

Inside Out is brainchild of a French photographer and street artist who is only kwn by initials JR.

More than 400,000 people, spanning across 138 countries, have participated in over 2,000 Inside Out projects in last 10 years.

Camargo and Calero plan to include photos portraits of some 2,000 people in final display.

To help reach this target, more than 20 photographers have been snapping shots of residents of San Blas district of Petare.

Camargo is well-kwn for her hard work in bringing people of neighbourhood toger, in making area a better place to live.

Over last dece, dozens of murals have been painted on community, along with or art projects involving young people of San Blas.

With se initiatives, Camargo aims to give a new meaning to being from "barrio" because, as she said she h experienced, it has always been a social stigma for many.