Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Journalists and motorcycle riders

Antonio G. Encinas, from El Norte de Castilla, has written to us: “I´m sending you the work from the photographer Gabriel Villamil, my colleague, with whom I go every year to cover the motorcycle gathering “Pingüinos” (“Penguins”). It is a meeting that brings together around 25000 registered motorcycle riders, during January´s second week-end. It is the most important winter gathering in Europe.  The newspaper dedicates to this event a huge amount of pages and a special feature at its website. This year, for example, 23 pages during the 4 days that the Penguins´ gathering lasts, with special intensity in the Saturday (7) and Sunday (8) publications. Between the two of us we cover everything that happens in the pine forest, exhibitions, people registered, stories, anecdotes… And he contributes each year with a section, on Saturday and Sunday, that we call `Zoom´. It is the most graphic way to narrate a story. And he does it by trudging up and down the pine woods, getting the results that differentiate us from the others and that give the coverage a unique shade”. Here we show some pages from the latest editions: 

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