The jury of Chile has already announced the winning pictures of their national competition, and managed to include a wide variety of cultural heritage in their selection. More than 4,000 images were submitted by 300+ people. While the first prize winner in the national competition shows a monument in decay – an almost anonymous room spoiled with graffiti in the salpeter mines of Humberstone – the church on the second place seems to be in perfect condition.
The third place shows a monument that probably everybody knows – the famous polynesian statues on Easter Island (also UNESCO world heritage) of more than 500 years old, while at the same time the tenth place shows much more modern history: neon advertizing signs of sparkling wine from the 1950s.
Office at Humberstone, by Tefy fd
2nd place: Church of San Pedro de Atacama, by Eduardo Banderas G.
3rd place: Easter Island, by Javier Ramos Pinochet
4th place: Valle de la Luna, by Davide guallini
The Rano Raraku where the Moai were cut, by Fabián Sepúlveda M.
Bulnes Fortress, by Davide guallini
San Francisco Church in Valparaíso, by Naxsquire
Museo Nacional Ferroviario Pablo Neruda, by Miguelcarrascoq
Church of Achauta, by Claudio Cortés Aros
This neon sign (and another sign one block away) was recently declared National Monument by president Sebastián Piñera in May 2010. This sign is a truthful representative of 1950′s Chilean advertising. The sign is one of the first “commercial items” to be declared National Monuments in Chile, by Calr1023
