El Quiltro del bicentenario, a symbolism picture

"El Quiltro del Bicentenario" was a photograph contest to choose the best photograph where a typical dog of Chile, "El quiltro" was shown.

The name of the winner picture is "Si para ser felices", and It was taken for Óscar Fuentes Mardones. This history is very nice, because this men is not photographer but is a physiology teacher of Universidad del Bìo Bío, a chilean university located in Chillán, Chile.

This photograph has a lot of symbolism because it shows a dog next to a beggar in a street of Chillán. With this picture Òscar Fuentes shows a hard reality, and also shows the big social inequalities existing in our country.

This picture was taken the last year and Óscar knew He won in January of 2010. But this photograph is not by chance, because frequently Óscar walked by the place where this pictures was taken and saw the beggar next to the dog called "Cachupín".

One day, Óscar decided to take a photograph and send it to the contest, but his motivation more than winning a prize, was to show this hard but existing reality.

When I talked with Óscar, he comment me that his father was also a photograph lover and he took the pasion from him.

The photograph content “El quiltro del Bicentenario” trying was a funny contest but with the Óscar picture this initiative be coverted in a X –ray that Chilean society.

Finally this picture shows that really Chile is not prepared for celebrate with a big party this two hundred year because while exist this problems, and this inequalities we don’t anything because for celebrate.