In the period between the two World Wars Chris Lebeau painted all the walls of the Old Catholic Church in Leiden (Netherlands). Pixelpolder photographed them all in June 2012 in a photo-shoot of 8 hours. In total 170 photographs -in high resolution- where supplied to Dutch Heritage. What you’re seeing here is a fragment of Chris Lebeau’s work called ‘Faith’. The two men in front -- Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- were executed in the USA at the time Lebeau was working in the church (NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0823.html#article).
The next two men – you see only theirs heads- are Vladimir Iljitsj Lenin and Mahatma Gandhi. I’m uncertain about the man in the blue suit. It might be Michael Bakoenin, a famous anarchist. (http://www.pixelpolder.com/site/2012-10-pixelpolders-favorite-month)