Colourful Arts Festival image wins Galway 2020 photo competition

A colourful image of French performers on Quay Street during the Galway Arts Festival taken by a French person who now lives in Galway was the winner of the My Galway, My Culture photography competition run by The Connacht Tribune.

The photograph was taken by Klervi Ily, originally from France, of the French group Transe Express as they proceeded down Quay Street inn their guise as three gigantic and colourful opera divas, entertaining the crowds as they went.

Klervi has won a week’s holiday for two in Croatia which will be the host of the other European Capital of Culture in 2020.

‘The image perfectly captured the vibrancy of one of those perfect Arts Festival night-time street performances’, says local photographer Andrew Downes who selected the winning entry from over 460 images sent in by Tribune readers.

‘We deliberately left it to people to interpret ‘Culture’ as they see it and we got a wide range of entries as a result, but Galway Arts Festival featured strongly as you’d expect at the time of year.

The competition was organised by The Connacht Tribune to provide another visual strand to Galway’s bid for the title of European Capital of Culture.

It invited anyone with a camera to capture their vision of culture in Galway during July and August this year.

Entries were received from all across the city and county as well as from overseas visitors. They covered a wide range of topics including landscapes, hurling, street scenes and sea life.

The winner was announced at a reception in The Print Works at The Connacht Tribune last evening which was attended by the Mayor of Galway, Cllr Frank Fahy and Mrs Anamarija Džidić, Deputy Head of Mission and Chargée d’Affaires at the Croatian Embassy.