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This year the International Heritage Photographic Experience
is being organised for the fourteenth time. A project which
was born in our country, and which is now coordinated by the
Museum of the History of Catalonia, has become established
as one of the most important international heritage-related
educational activities.
Last year’s award of the EU’s Europa Nostra Cultural Heritage
medal is a proof of this. Another is the constant increase in the
number of countries taking part, which this year has reached
59, spread over four continents.
In Catalonia, a total of 2,200 school students have taken part
in the Experience. We feel sure that, above and beyond their
legitimate desire to win a prize, this activity will have helped our
students to know and appreciate our country and its heritage
better. Photography, today’s art of observation and expression,
proves in this case to be a highly suitable and attractive
medium. The quality of the results, as you can see, is very high.
Furthermore, we feel that the enjoyment of taking them must
have been correspondingly great.
Once again, as in other years, I would like to thank the
Directorate General for the Cultural Heritage of the Catalan
Ministry of Culture and the Media for the confidence they have
placed in us, as well as the Secretariat General for Youth, the
Catalan Ministry of Education and our sponsors Arkofoto S.A. –
Starblitz for their active support.
To conclude, I do hope you will take pleasure frm the pictures
and, to the extent that that is possible, frm the original
scenes—as much as or more than those who actually took part
in this Experience.
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