Pinoy govt employee wins $3,000 in intl photo contest
The lone Filipino finalist in the "global artistic competition" launched for the United Nations' (UN) International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) has clinched one of the top prizes in the contest, its organizer announced on Thursday (Manila time).
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) said on its website that Billy Rey Tamio, a 24-year-old government employee and freelance photographer from Tanza, Cavite, topped the photography category of the "Coop'Art - Express Yourself" contest, which "aimed to raise young people's awareness about the cooperative movement worldwide" through music, video, and photography.
Billy Rey Tamio’s winning photo. Photo posted with permission of ICA
The contest was part of the ICA's celebration of the IYC, set in 2012 by the UN General Assembly through a resolution passed in December 2009 that recognizes the role of cooperatives --- or "business enterprises owned and controlled by its members" --- in socio-economic development.
Tamio's entry, which shows a group of siblings in a red all-metal sidecar driven by a boy on a bicycle, won him USD3,000 and a trip to Manchester, United Kingdom this month.
In an e-mail to GMA News Online after he was named one of the finalists, Tamio said the kids in the photo, which he took at the back of the subdivision he resides in, showed him the concept of collective perseverance towards a common goal.
"Para sa akin, ipinakita 'yung pagko-cooperate ng bawat isa para masuportahan ang isang miyembro nito. Hindi man sapat ang kanilang pangangailangan, napagtutulungan nila na matupad ang pangarap nilang magkaroon ng edukasyon," he wrote.
Aside from Tamio, other winners include Francisca Javiera Badilla Castillo of Chile (video category) and Roberto Morban Ramirez of the Dominican Republic (music category).
According to Jose Antonio Chavez Villanueva, youth representative on the ICA board, "Coop'Art" received some 170 proposals from the Asia Pacific, Africa, Americas, and Europe. - R.A. Dioquino, VVP, GMA News
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