Manaus Agile tourism and culture of the AmazonThe event is a realization of the Núcleo de Fotografia e Vídeo do Amazonas (NFVA).
O Paço da Liberdadelocated in the Historical Center of Manaus, will be the meeting point of the Marathon Photo Marathonnext Sunday, August 19th, at 8am, in allusion to the World Photography Daycelebrated on August 19th.
The organizer of the event, Sandra Praia, extends the invitation to students and photography lovers, besides amateur and professional photographers who want to join the walk. "In the Photo Marathon, we will walk 2.5 km through the main points of the Historical Center of the capital, where, besides photographing, we will also talk about photography," said Praia.
The starting point of the marathon will be the Paço da Liberdade, located on Gabriel Salgado Street. The group will follow Bernardo Ramos Street, the first urbanized street in the city, which, along its length, houses several buildings that recall the beginning of the urbanization of Manaus. Soon after, the marathon will pass by the Port of Manaus, Praça da Matriz, the Public Library, the Castelinhos da Rua Rui Barbosa and Largo de São Sebastião, ending at the Casa das Artes.
Those who wish to participate in the Photo Marathon should come to the Paço da Liberdade on the day and time scheduled by the event's organizers, with their photographic equipment. Those who don't have equipment can also participate in the walk. For more information, the Núcleo de Fotografia e Vídeo do Amazonas has available the e-mail [email protected].
The Day of Photography
Photography is one of the greatest inventions of the modern era, which allows one to register and reproduce, by means of chemical reactions and on surfaces prepared for the purpose, the images taken on the back of a dark camera.
August 19 was chosen in reference to the invention of the daguerreotype, the predecessor of photographic cameras, an ancient device invented by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, a French physicist and painter, which fixed the images taken in the darkroom on a silver leaf on a copper plate. It was on August 19, 1839 that the French Academy of Sciences announced the new invention worldwide.
Exhibition
The material produced during the marathon may be part of the exhibition "Manaus 349 Yearswhich will be at the Largo de São Sebastiãoon October 24th. The works must be sent in printed form to the Exhibition Center of the Center for Visual Arts Galeria do Largo until October 10.
