Coinciding with the Festes del rei En Jaume de Santa Ponça, the City Council of Calvià recovers this year one of the most recognized contests of the cultural panorama of the Balearic Islands: the Premis rei En Jaume de Fotografia. They were created in 1971 under the name of Calvià Awards and, after different stages in which it was linked to the Fiesta del Desembarco, it stopped being convened in 2012.
Now it is recovered with the aim of stimulating artistic creation and publicizing the municipality from various aspects: the historical, the playful, the geographical, the natural...
In each edition a main theme will be established, to which the presented works must be adapted, either in a literal or metaphorical way. This year's theme is El rei En Jaume and the Fiestas that take place in Santa Ponça from August 30 to September 9, 2018.
The deadline for submitting the works is from September 17 to 28 and participation is open to adults. Three categories are established: Night Photography, Black and White Forum and Color Photography. Each of them has an economic endowment of 1,000 euros.
The jury of each category, as convened in the last edition of the 2011 awards, will be made up of three people, this year related to the field of Balearic photography and culture.
Both the composition of the jury and the results of the contest, will not be made public until the celebration of the awards ceremony, which will take place on Friday, October 26, 2018 in the Exhibition Hall of the Ajuntament de Calvià. That same afternoon the Exhibition of Photographs of the Premis rei En Jaume 2018 will be inaugurated, which will remain open until January 2019.
