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Easter in Mazarrón was presented on Saturday March 14 officially revealing the name of the preacher at a ceremony held in the Parish Center.

This year will be the Councillor for Culture, Ginés Campillo, responsible for giving the opening speech on 28 March.

Campillo is a member of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre and it was a preacher of the Holy Week of Puerto de Mazarrón.

During Saturday night was also presented the book of the first five editions of the National Photography Contest, Francisco Garcia Jorquera work and were handed contest prizes this year.

Photographer Juan Ramón Martín Catoira has become the first prize, while the second was for Andrés Lozano Real.

The awards ceremony took place in the presence of members of the Council of Guilds and Puerto de Mazarrón, Guilds of Easter and of the municipal corporation, headed by the Mayor of Mazarrón, Francisco García.

The winner, Juan Ramón Martín Catoira is a photographer renowned Benalmádena.

This author started in the world of imaging in 1993. He has made several exhibitions to his credit include more than a dozen such events among which the work done at the University of Jaén, Almería or Pablo Ruiz Picasso Cultural Centre of Torremolinos.

Among the photographs published by this author the Life Style Magazine June 2008 and National Geographic, 2005. His photographic career is completed with about fifty prizes in various application throughout the country are cited.

The second prize went to the well Malaga photographer Andres Lozano Real, which started in photography back in the 90s and has a long history.

Its principles are related to photography when entering the photographic group of Málaga, Aula 7. It belongs to several entities photography as the Spanish Confederation of Photography and the International Federation of Photographic Art.

He has received numerous awards and exhibited throughout the country and perhaps the highlight of his career is the publication of 1,500 photographs in various media as travel magazines, newspapers, catalogs, internet.

etc.

The National Photography Contest Easter Mazarrón is convened every year around this time each year.

This year's participation exceeded fifty works by authors from different parts of the country as Pamplona (Navarra), Alicante, Porcuna (Jaén), Malaga, Seville, Barcelona, ​​Madrid, La Rioja, etc.

Stresses in all the algta quality of the papers where we discovered that the Photography Award Semana Santa de Mazarrón striking good specialists in this art.

This call also has the support of organizations and associations of Spanish photography that make the promotion of the contest among its members.

All this comes to us to say that the photography prize has consolidated and displayed as a solid foundation on which to grow.

Well understood festival director and photographer, Juan Francisco Belmar, who explains how Holy Week Award begin to openly support you photograph institutions for quality and good work throughout the selection process works and the work done by juries.

For the new edition of this year, the foundation introduced some changes compared to the previous year.

First, it highlights the strong support of the City of Mazarrón in supporting a photography prize is considered of interest to the municipality.

To the organizers the Council of Guilds Holy Week Puerto de Mazarrón adds, allowing the competition to acquire a new international dimension.

Awards both amount and number, with the addition of a new award to the local photo expand as the first two remain free subject.

The amount of the contest prize amounts to 3,000 euros.

Besides photographic awards were also given the XVI Awards Lenten Short Story Competition.

Finally, the evening was enlivened by the Band "Master Eugenio Calderon" and the Band of Bugles and Drums of Mazarrón who played the Funeral March for the Holy Sepulchre and Eternity Marinera, respectively.

Also, the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre organized a photographic exhibition of the collective F-20, also opened last Saturday in the Town of Mazarrón.

The exhibition will be open until April 4 Monday through Friday from 10-14 pm and 17-20 pm and Saturdays from 10-14 hours, except on Saturday March 28 will remain closed.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón