The Union, January 30, 2011.
A revealing snapshot of the 1930's titled "Group of Miners in El Llano del Beal" won this weekend's V Photo Contest organized by the Centre of Interpretation of the Mina 'Matildas' and the Fundación Sierra Minera, dedicated this year historical images in the Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Union before the end of this activity in the region in 1991.
This contest made possible by the collaboration of Mining Park of La Union, as well as financial support CajaMurcia Foundation and the Directorate General of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets of the Region of Murcia, is to collect and disseminate images that are interest to show the ethnographic aspects of daily life and history in the Sierra Minera.
In a ceremony held at the Interpretation Centre of Mining located in El Beal (Cartagena), the president of the Fundación Sierra Minera, Pedro Martos, and Councilman unionense of hamlets, and Participation Barrios, Jose Luis Rubi, presented the symbolic prize of $ 300 Larios Jose Miguel Roca, whose image was imposed on the 139 photographs submitted for the contest.
The jury of the official chronicler of La Union, Francisco Rodenas, the professional photographer Vincent Caron; and professor of geology at the UPCT, José Ignacio Manteca, they unanimously decided on the basis of "criteria of age of instant As well as technical and evocative of times past. "
For its part, the second prize went to Maria Dolores Esparza Guerrero through his photograph called 'Joint Rajao Cabezo Mines', while the third prize, awarded by the public, was for the photograph titled' Mob of mules workers road construction in the Ashes, which was introduced Ramon Vivanco.
You may find more information on the web: http://www.fundacionsierraminera.org/actividades/
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión