The campaign aims to highlight the solidarity and the day-to-day work of the society in adapting to the health emergency caused by the Coronavirus

The photographs taken by citizens can be sent until July 1st to the email address contravientoymarea@valenciaport.com

On the Valenciaport website, you can see the photos that have been arriving

The Port Authority of Valencia will hold an exhibition in “Edificio del Reloj” with a selection of the images that will serve as a tribute

València, June 8th, 2020.- More than 700 photographs have already arrived at the initiative launched by the Valencia Port Authority to hold an exhibition-homage to society in the form of images showing the day-to-day adaptation to the health emergency caused by the Covid-19. Some photographs sent by hundreds of people where they show in an illustrative way how the Coronavirus pandemic is being dealt with from different points of view that reflect aspects such as the action of health personnel, teleworking, confinement, adaptation to de-escalation. Images that show the capacity of the human being to face a situation that has changed our routine and show the solidarity and pain caused by the pandemic.

The photographs can be sent by any citizen to the e-mail address contravientoymarea@valenciaport.com until July 1st, the deadline for receiving these images. This initiative will culminate with an exhibition in the “Edificio del Reloj”, an emblematic place in the city of Valencia that is becoming a cultural reference point, of a selection of images that will be taken by professional photographers: José Aleixandre, José Penalba, Alba García, Antonio Alcaraz, Eva Mañez, José Poveda and Tania Castro. The exhibition will be curated by art historian Ester Medán.

In addition to the physical exhibition, the PAV is also organising a “virtual exhibition” that will include all the photographs, of which more than 500 can already be seen on the Valenciaport website.

How to participate

Valenciaport wishes to generate the maximum possible citizen participation and has therefore established some very simple criteria so that all citizens who wish to participate and have taken pictures of this situation, either with their camera or with their mobile phone, can do so.

Specifically, to participate in this initiative / tribute it will be enough to send photographs that are original; that is, taken by the person who signs or sends them.

  1. Send the photographs to contravientoymarea@valenciaport.com in the natural size in which the image was captured (uncompressed, unless required by the capacity of the e-mail).
  2. Indicate the e-mail address, the title of the photograph and the full name of the author in order to indicate it in the exhibition of the “Edificio del Reloj” and the website.
  3. Sending the photographs implies authorising the Port Authority to use the images received for the exhibitions indicated (the virtual one on the website and the physical one in the Clock Building) and in other promotional media for the exhibitions in question.