Arte e Cultura
Presentation of the FCBARCELONA PHOTO AWARDS in Barcelona
The ARCELONA PHOTO AWARDS took place yesterday in Barcelona , in a ceremony in which culture and sport emerged as the real winners.
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The journalist and writer Rafael Nadal led the event, in which the President of the Club, Josep Maria Bartomeu , the Vice President, Carles Vilarrubí and the Culture Minister of the Government of Catalonia, Santi Vila , participated. A surprising artistic spectacle which combined opera, music and live painting, completed the evening.
The ARCELONA PHOTO AWARDS are sports-themed awards, aimed at top-class artists that use photography as a creative vehicle, as well as professional photographers and photojournalists that see sports as a way of artistic expression. The goal is to identify photographic work that consciously reflects the positive values intrinsic to sport and have been created in order to give recognition to those values seen through the lens of the best contemporary photographers.
The awards have two components: the , for a single photograph and the , for the idea of a photographic project to be realized. Both categories are endowed with a prize of €40,000 for the winners.
The awards have a jury of great international prestige:
Vicente Todolí, Azu Nwagbogu and
Sandra S. Phillips
Ayperi Karabuda Ecer, Alex Webb and Stephen Mayes
"Barça has a enormous ambition in the cultural world. It has collaborated in theatre, cinema and now photography projects, because we are looking to consolidate this work. Hopefully in a few years this award will be a benchmark within the world of sports photography."
"Sometimes there are prejudices in the world of sport in terms of values. The Club seeks to reward the artistic manifestation through photography, which has to do with the values that FC Barcelona injects in the education of its athletes."
"I want to congratulate the FC Barcelona because with this initiative, not only they confirm to us that football is culture, but also that it can be an ambassador for values."
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Oriol Bonsoms, +34 629 045 327
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