"It was the dream of all Fotogenios that have been held and we will finally realize" as well as excited today has shown the biggest event director of photographers from all over Spain, Juan S.
Calventus, when the Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero has confirmed his attendance at the seventh edition of "Fotogenio" to be held in Mazarrón on 31 May and 1 and June 2.
"We were already very happy with the presence of Chema Madoz and Gervasio Sanchez in the same event, but with Garcia Rodero we completed the presence of a trio of national photography that transcends the international and that, ultimately, three geniuses indisputable, "remarked Calventus.
Like and Sanchez Madoz, Cristina García Rodero is National Photography Prize, becoming the first woman to achieve this award that was granted in 1996.
But this has a degree in Fine Arts in their windows many more accolades that attest to his superb career and his fighting spirit.
Those include the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts.
But if anything stands the puertollanense is also being the only Spanish professional who has gone to work with the very prestigious photojournalism agency "Magnum".
García Rodero has also published several books and has been a figure that marked a before and an after in the world of women in photography, getting the prize "Planet of Photography", the award for Best Book of Fotografía3 in "XXX Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles "(France), the award" Eugene Smith "of humanistic photography in New York (USA), the" deutchen Gellschaft Fur Photographie "in Cologne (Germany), or the prize" Latin American Photography Olorum "La Havana (Cuba), among many others.
The Mayor of Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, has also been thrilled with the news and commented that "we are delighted that we will gather in Mazarrón three of the most important and great photographers of our country, making the publication of this new year in the most important event nationally on the world of photography. "
Furthermore, given the fact that Garcia Rodero give his talk on Friday, May 31, with free entry to the contest.
Given this fact, the mayor has called on "all citizens of Mazarrón to come to talk of Garcia Rodero because, surely, will be a unique experience."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón