Students, staff and guests travel through the Millsap Foyer underground entrance on a regular basis, passing by the photos hanging on the walls of the foyer.

Sherry Sebastian, the intercultural programming coordinator for the Office of International Student Admissions Services, thinks it is time to change the photographs.

The Millsap Foyer is part of the Global Museum, which includes showcases on campus.

“We want to highlight the different countries that are represented here at Park University,” Sebastian said. “We wanted to bring some of the cultures and artifacts from different countries to Park.”

Her vision is to create a similar photographic atmosphere by creating photographs of people in Parkville and the surrounding communities.

Her idea is drawn off a similar concept of the “Humans of New York” Facebook page, which showcases photos of random individuals and their stories.

Sebastian contacted Max Mohr, a sophomore photojournalism major at Park, to take and submit photos that would fit the profile of what she is looking for that could be displayed in the foyer.

“A lot of my inspirations are from nature in general,” Mohr said. “Taking photos of people in their element, I really like candid shots. I don’t like people posing or portrait type shots…I get them in their essence, them being them.”  When he takes photos of someone, he said he tells them to just go about doing what they are doing, to be natural and he believes that it captures who people are.

“I am really excited as the semester goes on and I get a good photo of someone else or something else going on I can submit it to her and it is an ongoing project,” he said. “It’s going to be a thing where, in two months from now, I can give her a good photo of someone downtown and she will print it and put it on the wall.”

The first prints should be up in the Millsap Foyer mid- to late February.

This is an ongoing project so make sure to take time to stop in and look at the foyer for the ever-changing photographs by Mohr.