Photo Awards Granted in Eastern Cuba’s Province of Holguin (Versión al español)

By Leandro Estupiñán
leandro@ahora.cu

The seventh Provincial Photography Exhibit got inaugurated last July 15 on revealing the prize-winning photographs at the Electa Arenal gallery, the only surviving space to the restorations in the Art Center.

The members of the jury –Frank Batista, Dagoberto Driggs and Ramón Legón- met previously to assess the aesthetic values of some 20 works in contest and agreed to acknowledge mentions to Maikel Domínguez Báster, Yunior Pérez González and Margarita Lores Montero's works.

Yolanda Rodríguez, photographer of the !Ahora! Weekly, won third prize with the series “When Little Armando Played to Be a Teacher”, a work standing for a photographic discourse without being afraid to let photography reveals itself as such, according to the members of the jury.

Kaloian Santos Cabrera, a young photojournalist, got the second award with another series: “A diverse world is also possible”. Santos's proposal stands out for his narrative condition and the use of light to get it as much real as possible to the world of a transvestite. Yet the fine photographic treatment in black and white in terms of a metaphor of the reality stuck up for Yoxi Velázquez to win the first place with “Juancito”.

First-place winning work.