Sports Illustrated invites Boston residents to cover shoot

Sports Illustrated is inviting Bostonians to take part in a cover shoot for an upcoming issue featuring the Boston Marathon.

Those who want to take part in the Boston Strong cover shoot are invited to meet at the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth Streets in Boston at 7 a.m. on Saturday, April 12. The shoot will be for the cover of the magazine’s April 16 issue leading up to the 2014 marathon, marking one-year since two bombs were detonated near the finish line during the 2013 race.

The shoot will feature first responders to the attack and the city’s mayor, Marty Walsh. Those coming to the photo shoot are encouraged to wear Boston Marathon gear if they own any.

“Boston Strong is a story about people, ordinary people doing extraordinary things, ordinary people doing ordinary things,” said managing editor Chris Stone in a post on their website. “SI’s creative director, Chris Hercik, believed the best way to tell this story a year later was to bring all those people, or as many as possible, into a single photo at the finish line. If you look at last year’s cover photo, you see all that empty space all the way down Boylston Street filled by smoke and that backdrop of chaos and destruction. This year’s photo fills those spaces with the Bostonians who wrote the Boston Strong story.”

The Boston Marathon this year will take place on Monday, April 21.