Italy – The winners of the photo contest: Don Bosco's Dream today

10 May 2024
Italy – The winners of the photo contest: Don Bosco's Dream today

(ANS – Turin) – The international photographic competition called "Don Bosco's Dream Today" launched in January 2024 to celebrate the bicentenary of Don Bosco's Dream at Nine Year of Age, promoted by the Casa Don Bosco Museum and organised by the curator of the next temporary exhibition, Dr Ana Martín García, ended on 25 March 2024. Participation, in terms of numbers and quality was very significant: a total of 65 proposals from different countries were submitted to the competition, with the participation of dozens of artists from all over the Salesian world.

Of the works presented, 17 winning photographs will be exhibited in the temporary exhibition with the description of the authors. In this way, the snapshots of the different Salesian places around the world will be welcomed "home".

The winners, in alphabetical order of the photographic works, are:

  1. All together now and The Teaching of Don Bosco, by Samira Kujur Tazzari, Lombard Emilian Province (ILE), Bologna, Italy.
  2. Del sueño al corazón (From dream to heart), by Iván Silva Montero, Province of Mexico-Mexico (MEM), Coacalco, State of Mexico.
  3. Don Bosco y su rebaño (Don Bosco and his flock), by Janier Córdoba, Province of Central America (CAM), Panama.
  4. Give of yourself; Salesian Sacrament of the presence; and Humble, strong and energetic!, by Filip Balvan, Slovakia Province – Bratislava (SLK), Žilina, Slovakia.
  5. Il perdono direttamente da Dio, by Marco Navach, Lombard Emilian Province (ILE), Castelfranco, Veneto, Italy.
  6. La alegría no distinguue de banderas (Joy knows no flags) by Juan Miguel Bermejo, Mary Help of Christians Province Spain (SMX), Alicante, Spain.
  7. La Fratellanza, by Camilla Cirulli,  Lombard Emilian Province (ILE), Bologna, Italy.
  8. Sguardi sul futuro, by Anna Maria Ghiurcuta, Piedmont Special Circumscription, Valle d 'Aosta and Lithuania (ICP), Turin, Italy.
  9. Strade d 'Angola, by Elisa Crestani, North-East Italy Province (INE), Veneto, Italy.
  10. Transformando vidas a través de la fe y el acompañamiento (Transforming lives through faith and accompaniment); Mirada de esperanza (A gaze of hope); Transformados por el amor: el legado de Don Bosco (Transformed by love: the testimony of Don Bosco), by Jorge Luis Bastidas Rojas,  Province of Venezuela (VEN), Petare, Caracas, Venezuela.
  11. Un tocco di speranza (A touch of hope), by Lindsay Gremmy Gonzales Gonzales,  Piedmont Special Circumscription, Valle d 'Aosta and Lithuania (ICP), Turin, Italy.
  12. Uno sguardo verso l’alto (An upward look), by Lorenzo Malavenda, Piedmont Special Circumscription, Valle d 'Aosta and Lithuania (ICP), Turin, Italy.

These photographs capture different moments, portraying people and places in distant geographical areas where Don Bosco's Dream continues even today.

On the opening day of the temporary exhibition for the bicentenary of St John Bosco' Dream, Fr Michael Pace, Coordinator of Visits at the Casa Don Bosco Museum, will deliver the certificates of recognition to the winners.

Winners who are not present at the inaugural event will receive the certificate by post.

The Casa Don Bosco Museum thanks all those who have sent and presented their photographic works.

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