miércoles, 3 de diciembre de 2008

Photo Contest Awards around the New Trouba Music

The photo contest jury members around the New Trouba Music (Homage to El Plátano, allias from a a recently dead photographer who devouted part of his live to photographing trouba singers), integrated by photography director Raúl Rodríguez and the photographers Julio Larramendi and Alain Gutiérrez, after checking 23 participants's works, wishes to subscribe, first of all, the quality of the images as a serious approach to the photographic memory of Cuban Trouba Movement perceived by various photographers.

Troubador Silvio Rodriguez attended the photo exhibit.
The jury wishes to acknowledge this contest is an evidence of the efforts accomplished by the Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center to encourage and to spread out the artist's works from all generations and trends in the New Cuban Trouba. The photo contest shows too, the assortment and quality in the Island’s photographic world, and fosters involvement and historic documentation of concerts, gatherings and other types of events where Cuban troubadours play a starring role.
Cuban movie actor Jorge Perugorría.
The jury agreed unanimously, granting the following rewards, mentions and acknowledgment:

First: Picking up out of all sent photos those depicting the spirit of the Trouba Movement in an attractive and original way to be exhibited (jury selection). Such a decision favored the following photographers:

Joseph Ignacio Vázquez López

Yordanka Caridad Almaguer Delgado

Enrrique Smith Soto

Carolina Vilches Monzón
Alejandro Bueno García
Ricardo Rodriguez.


Jose Meriño.
Second: Granting mentions to the following photographers, due to the aesthetic and moral values as well as the treatment of the contest theme:
Amauris Betancourt Gómez


J. Gonzalo Vidal A.

George Daniel Villa Hernández
Third: Granting the three following awards according to the contest's bases:

Because he rescues and he keeps alive the memory of a generation and of a musical movement in a unpublished image, the third award is granted to:

Joseph Michael Carassou Morales
Because he gets across and is able to sum up in a single image the troubadour's passions and his greatness, the second award is granted to:

Kaloian Santos Cabrera.


Because of the subtle remark and simplicity of the image and the excellent general plane to suggest a message, the first Prize is granted to:

Richard Pérez de la Rionda

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