Ethnography, culture and traditions']
The show opens this evening at 20 hours
Space Molinos del Rio Stables hosts the exhibition of the best photos of the sixth edition of the 'Murcia.
Ethnography, culture and traditions', which opens tonight and will be open until next September
In this sample we can see those photographs which, by its originality, artistic quality and ethnographic content, were elected on 3 May by the competition jury composed by photographer Juan Ballester, documentarian and ethnographer Tomás García, and Head of Museums Service and Cultural Activities Manuel Fernandez-Delgado, and chaired by the Councillor for Culture, Fátima Barnuevo.
All photographs are accompanied by texts given by the authors themselves in order to illustrate better.
Among the images that can be seen in this exhibition highlight the winners in different categories: Cosme Muñoz, with a series of chapels of Yecla and Joaquin Zamora, with a picture of a herd in Chícamo River, in the form of photography rural heritage, and Manuel Zamora with a portrait of a seller of snails in the market Veronicas, and Jesus Martinez, a photograph of a grape treader Bullas, in the category of contemporary photography on ethnographic heritage.
In the form of historical photography, the winners were Jose Martinez and Rosa Ferrer.
All photographs are about anything that reflects the historical, cultural and ethnographic some of the natural regions that make up the Region of Murcia.
The aim of this competition is to encourage artistic creativity and documenting and sharing our traditions while serving to save images from family archives.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia