This past Sunday, and before more than 300 people packed the Senior Center Puerto de Mazarron, Mayor, Ginés Campillo, inaugurated the exhibition "A lifetime" of photographers Juan Francisco and Maria Dolores Olivo Belmar.
A sample with both photographers have wanted to pay tribute to our elders and a lifetime of struggle and sacrifice.
Ginés Campillo had some very touching words for the exhibition and which also represented a family person yours, Ana Mendez, who died recently and who has been recognized by the Center in a tribute for his selfless work and social involvement that has devoted much of his life.
Campillo thanked the authors had taken the initiative, "as a contribution to the conservation of Mazarrón roots" and also addressed to the director of the Center, Alfonso Cifuentes, for good projects that are launched from this center.
The photographer, Juan Francisco Belmar, collaboration thanked everyone who participated in the sample, giving them the confidence of knowing their lives and into their homes talking to them and sharing their experiences.
An enriching experience which Belmar wished he matched the quality of the photographs that make up the sample.
"We worked from the love, admiration and deepest respect to you all," he added.
For its part, the photographer, Maria Dolores Olivo, said he had been a work "intense but rewarding and very emotional," the power to be in touch "with the people of our town, our people."
Maria Dolores Olivo thanked Mayor had the courtesy to include exposure in the festival program, and was very satisfied with the experience that has meant facing a photographic work of this magnitude.
In the exhibition are represented all Mazarron through 43 photographs of as many of them, which collects his professional side.
With this, they pay tribute to a lifetime of work and also recover missing and traditions in the municipality.
The exhibition has been very successful and very well received and reviews from all who have visited.
At the Monday following the inauguration, the exhibition was continually visited and the presence of people was constant.
All agreed on the quality of the photographs and their presentation impeccable.
The exhibition will be open until January 8 in the opening hours of the center.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón