Cartagena looks out at the PhotoEspaña festival: the images of the confinement balconies take to the streets

CARTAGENA. Fifty photographs that were taken during the confinement in the Region of Murcia and that had as their inspiration the balconies and windows, have gone out to those streets that were then forbidden to remember feelings, loneliness, hope, thanks, … Those streets are those of Cartagena, where this artistic tribute to the collective effort already hangs from lthe facades of the Icue square and in the exterior of the El Batel Auditorium, as a result of the call From my window what did he do el festival PHotoEspaña.

These photographs speak of topics as varied as solidarity with the toilets, nature or the architecture that was waiting outside or how children became the little heroes of confinement. Likewise, they are images that convey an endless number of feelings experienced in a situation as exceptional as the one that was experienced.

He Cartagena City Council, in collaboration with the El Batel Auditorium and Conference Center, joined this collective initiative launched by PHotoEspaña, which invited citizens to take photographs from their confinements, with balconies and windows as the central theme, and upload them to Instagram. The result was that more than 63,000 images were registered throughout the country tagged with the contest’s hashtag on Instagram (# PHEdesdemibalcón) and 36,201 registered entries on the project’s website. From the Region of Murcia, they were 440 people who participated in the project, 115 from Cartagena. A jury has selected 2,450 best photographs, of which 50 were taken in the Region.

This fifty images will be exhibited from this Wednesday in Cartagena, as this is the only city in the Community that has joined the project: 24 are exhibited in the Plaza del Icue and the other 26 outside the El Batel Auditorium. The exhibition in Cartagena will have two phases, since until the end of August the photographs will be exhibited in these two locations, while from September 1 to the end of October they will all be shown outside El Batel.

The inauguration that took place in Cartagena joins, in turn, those that have been held in 50 other cities in Spain who are also in the project, thus giving the Kickoff to the PhotoEspaña 2020 edition, an edition that is marked by the stories that citizens have built from their homes.

In addition to Cartagena, they have participated in this project and now they also host their respective exhibitions Madrid, Salamanca, Valladolid, Santander, La Coruña, Alcobendas, Alcalá de Henares, Segovia, Badajoz, Seville, Barcelona, ​​Córdoba, Logroño, Oviedo, Vitoria, La Laguna , Las Palmas, León, Soria, Zaragoza, Castellón, Elche, Gijón, Granada, Jaén, Melilla, Pamplona, ​​Teruel, Toledo, Vigo, Albacete, Alicante, Cáceres, Getafe, Guadalajara, Hospitalet, Zamora, Burgos, Coslada, Ibiza, Muxía, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Torrevieja.

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