**Reception of photographs is until this Friday, June 14 and selection of winning images will be by popular vote on social networks, shaping a collection of postcards and traveling exhibition.
“Caletas of Chile: Coastal Cultural Heritage” is the name of the first photographic contest of the National Institute for Sustainable Development of Artisanal Fishing and Small-Scale Aquaculture, INDESPA. The initiative, framed in the commemoration of the National Artisanal Fishing Day that is celebrated every June 29, aims to recognize and highlight, through photography, the cultural, social and economic value of artisanal fishing in the coastal territory where more than 540 coves of artisanal fishermen and women in Chile are located.
Aimed at citizens who are fond of photography, this call includes as its central theme the daily activities and scenes of artisanal fishing around a cove of artisanal fishermen and women, along the Chilean coast.
Leonardo Llanos Huerta, national director of INDESPA, invited citizens to participate in this call. “We are in the month that we commemorate the national day of artisanal fishing, when the coves become the scene of the traditional San Pedro festivities. We want to generate an instance of citizen participation, which encourages citizens to capture a moment, recognize and value everything that happens in the economic, cultural and tourist sphere around a cove and the fishing environment with its activities and elements.”
How to take part
For this contest, participants will be able to capture moments and images that convey the action of a person in relation to the environment, their activity, a group of people in the landscape or elements associated with artisanal fishing activity (for example, vessels, fishing resources, fishing gear, others).
The receipt of photographs will be until June 14, 2024 through the email [email protected] with the subject Photographic Contest. And the voting for the selection of the ten best images will run between June 17 and 24, 2024, through its website www.indespa.cl and the social media accounts @indespachile on Instagram and @indespa_chile on Facebook .
The results will be published on Friday, June 28, 2024 in advance of the national commemoration of National Artisanal Fishing Day.
The winning photographs will be part of a collection of postcards called: “Caletas de Chile” to disseminate the cultural, tourist and economic value of the coves, and of a traveling exhibition that will begin the first days of July in the city of Valparaíso, while The first three places will receive surprise prizes.
To participate, contestants must be over 18 years of age and may submit a digital photograph, which must be a personal and unpublished shot taken from 2023 to date, with a digital camera, cell phone, or drone camera, in a resolution and size no less than 300 dpi and 3000 pixels, and a weight no less than 4 mega pixels.
The rules of this contest are available at www.indespa.cl
