Patrick Snead

Some Athens Academy students last week laid out 400,000 photo-booth-sized photographs of fellow students on their gym floor to represent the 400,000 people estimated by aid organizations to have been murdered in the genocidal war in Sudan’s Darfur region. Max Ruppersburg organized the "laydown" at Athens Academy.

Patrick Snead

Students from all over the country contributed their photographs on the networking web site Facebook. Athens Academy students printed out 4,000 pages with 100 photos each, to dramatize the number of victims estimated to have been murdered in the Darfur genocide.

Patrick Snead

The tiny photographs covered most of the floor in the school’s gym.