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The images taken by the participants in the first "Take a picture" workshop have already been made public and will compete with those taken in the second, between September 8 and 12. Anyone who wishes can see those snapshots and see how the first phase of this contest has been inspired by the current style of photography that is used for the promotion of tourist destinations.
The Cabildo carried out a study based on a year of images about current tourist destinations and 40 possible situations were defined: person with a backpack in an urban environment, people having a drink on a terrace, person looking at the landscape, groups of young people talking in all environments, person photographing a tourist attraction, person resting and relaxed in nature, couple approaching a monument, tourist pointing with his finger at another to contemplate a tourist attraction, games and playgrounds, group of young people in a square... and so on up to 40.
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The second workshop from 8 to 12
In this way, the aim is to turn the current situation around: "the photography about Lanzarote portrays an extremely beautiful island, with breathtaking natural settings, in which there are no people, neither its people nor its visitors enjoying it are portrayed", they point out from the Cabildo.
The result of the first workshop can already be seen in the "For Lanzarote" photo gallery on Flickr, in which there are already more than 700 images and the second is already warming up with Natividad Betancor at the head, since she will be in charge of energizing it from September 8 to 12.
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A new strategy will create from the materials generated in the workshops "a more emotional image of Lanzarote", in which the beauty of the Island's nature is combined with the life and small stories of the people of Lanzarote and the tourists themselves.