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al>. País de Píxeles is focused on empowering civil society with useful tools for dealign with citizen journalism or, simply, visually testifying the island’s current reality. contest. The jury had a hard time deciding because all the projects were excellent. If you go to our web site, you can see who all these people are . Who were the members of the jury? One was from the CubaRaw freelance photography agency, and other Cuban visual artists: Geandy Pavón, actor/filmmaker Ismael de Diego (from New York); writer and photographer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo (from Washington); Claudio Fuentes (Havana) and Francis Sánchez (Ciego de Ávila). You can also see the materials sent to the judges, which did not identify any of the competing artists. CubaRaw Archive This competition had even greater participation in its second iteration, right? Who were those who won awards? This time we were lucky enough to have 100 participants, although there were fewer people from the provinces. It is also curious that there were more men than women. The theme was our Cuba and the multiplicity of its contemporary contexts, with an emphasis on the social and people. Raciel del Amo (1991), with second prize going to Dunia Cordero Amador (1990), and third prize going to Israel MOYA Torres (1987). We also did five honorable mentions, to Ilei D Jesús, Ernesto Santana, Oscar Rodríguez, Fabiana Salgado, and Mileidy Septien (MILO). This second competition was more aesthetically rigorous than the first one. There were many photography students, young people who were interested in photographic artistic expression who joined the project, despite the demonic way in which these types of independent projects are characterized. Many who came were cautious and afraid, but after meeting Luis and me they calmed down and even proposed joining us as photographers for CubaRaw from that moment on. That was the case with the first prize, Raciel Amo, a 22 year-old, self-taught photographer with incredible photos, and it was his first time in a Will there be any future exhibits? We are planning monthly exhibits and on having artistic materials (both Cuban and universal, and current) to distribute free of charge on DVDs, for those who are interested. We did our first exhibit with CubaRaw’s principal photographers, in August 2013: it was a great success. Many people came, particularly art-oriented young folks. After the exhibit and awarding of the País de Píxeles prizes, we are also planning a personal exhibit of visual 94