The exhibition “Photo ARK” – The New Noah's Ark, by Joel Sartore, with the seal of National Geographic, will open on June 1, in Vilamoura.
This is, as the Câmara de Loulé says, a «unique cultural event, of great impact and national and international projection».
Organized jointly by the Municipality of Loulé and Inframoura, this is a National Geographic exhibition comprising dozens of photographs of animals by photographer Joel Sartore. It is a project that intends to photograph all 12 thousand species that exist in captivity, in order to create a huge archive, capable of sensitizing the public to the conservation of animal species: a kind of photographic Noah's Ark.
The author stipulated a 25-year period (from 2005 to 2010) to carry out this project. In the last ten years, Joel Sartore has captured more than 7 species, 12 of which were taken in Portugal.
After passing through Porto and Lisbon, with more than 150 thousand visitors, Vilamoura is now hosting this photographic exhibition in a 400m² enclosure, close to the Marina.
For Vítor Aleixo, mayor of Loulé, “it is a pleasure, as a mayor but also as a citizen, to host an initiative with the National Geographic stamp in the county, especially as it is a project that meets the values that also this Municipality shares: the preservation of the animal species and sustainability of the Planet».
The exhibition can be visited from the 2nd of June until the 30th of September at Vilamoura Marina (Av. Cerro da Vila, next to The Lake Resort Hotel), between 14:30 pm and 23:30 pm.
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