One more year, Cinfa summons its solidarity photographic contest ‘The patient’s gaze’that in its seventh edition maintains a double objective. On the one hand, give visibility to the reality of people who live with disability or chronic diseases, in the first person or as family caregivers who accompany them in their day to day. On the other, support the work of the associations of Spanish patients, who carry out a fundamental task in improving the quality of life of all of them.
As in previous calls, the contest establishes three double awards: one for the author or author of the photograph and another for the association you choose when presenting the snapshot. To participate, it is simply necessary to be of legal age with residence in Spain and complete the registration form, available on the official website Lamiradadelpaciente.cinfa.comwhere the legal bases can also be consulted (the deadline for submission will be extended until March 6 at 12 noon).
Visibility and awareness
«The patient’s look ‘initiative’, as its name indicates -says Enrique Ordieres, president of Cinfa -, seeks to be a window through which we look out to the reality of thousands of people who live with a disease or disability daily . Both the contest, as the books and exhibitions that we have launched inspired by their photographs, have given us the opportunity to meet unique people, with hard stories, but full of life, that help us understand the value of health » . Ordieres highlights the relevance of this action for the Cinfa team, “since, with it we seek to focus, never better, these situations, in order to give them visibility and socially raise awareness about it.”
‘The patient’s gaze’ is a solidarity contest, whose awards are mainly in patient associations. How to participate?: Photographers and photographers should indicate to which patient entity they want to support and, in case their snapshot is selected, the prize will be double, with a contribution of 3,500 euros for the association and 1,500 euros for the author or author of the image; A second prize, of 2,500 euros for the entity and 1,000 euros for the author, and a third of 1,500 euros for the association and 500 euros for the photographer.
The selection of photographs will be carried out by a professional jury composed of representatives of the world of photography, journalism, and the scope of patient entities, as well as by the president of Cinfa, Enrique Ordieres. In the assessment of the images, they will take into account both technical aspects and the content and message they transmit.
Balance of ‘The patient’s gaze’
Since 2017, the year in which this initiative began, there are more than 2,200 photographs participating in it (a small sample of them can be seen on the official website), in addition, Cinfa has published the book ‘The Patient’s Look’, which In its three volumes it compiles about 60 of these photographs, in a tribute to patients, people with disabilities, family caregivers and associations.
Recognized personalities of the art, sports, culture or gastronomy of our country have been inspired by these images to write stories that deepen the captured stories or emotions. Astronaut Sara García, the writer Ángeles Caso, athlete Alex Roca, actress Lola Herrera, chef Ferran Adrià and actor Miguel Ángel Muñoz are some of the authors and authors who have participated in the last volume of the work, published to late 2024. The three books can be downloaded for free on the web Lamiradadelpaciente.cinfa.com
In this context, and with the aim of bringing these images and reflections to more people, Cinfa has launched an itinerant exhibition with 15 photographs presented to the contest that will cover various Spanish cities. Around four million visitors have already been able to see a sample of these large-format life portraits, both at the Atocha-Almudena Grande station, the Plaza de Callao and the Plaza del Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, as in the Plaza de La Merced de Málaga.
‘The patient’s gaze’ Therefore, a consolidated proposal for social aware of the patient ‘,’ cinfateaming ‘and’ they count ‘(next to the Malasmadres club) … a whole deployment to give support and visibility to already other vulnerable groups that, in the last three years, have donated more than two million euros of euros To social causes.
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