The 40 best images from the latest edition of the night photography competition will be on display in the airport’s departures terminal for a month.
The Menorca Starlight 2024 exhibition, which shows the 40 best images from the second edition of the Menorca Starlight Night Photography Competition, has been on display at the Menorca airport departures terminal since yesterday, 20th December, until 18th January 2025.
The inauguration of the exhibition was attended by the director of Menorca Airport, Santiago Martínez-Cava Arenas, the island director of the General State Administration, Isabel López Manchón, the councillor for the Environment, Biosphere Reserve and Cooperation, Simón Gornés, and the Consell de Menorca’s Environment technician, Juana María Pons Madrid.
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Menorca Starlight 2024 exhibition opens at Menorca Airport
‘The exhibition has visited almost all of the island’s municipalities to raise awareness of the need to preserve the beauty of our night sky. Now we want travellers visiting our island to be able to enjoy this exhibition, to get to know our nocturnal landscape and to become aware of the work we are doing to preserve it’, explained Simón Gornés.
For her part, Isabel Manchón wanted to emphasise the suitability of the exhibition at the airport. ‘The airport is a very appropriate location for the exhibition. Before the advent of modern technology, pilots relied on the stars for guidance during night flights. Even today, the stars represent a symbol of exploration, precision and a connection to the Christmas season.’
The photography competition organised every two years by the Menorca Biosphere Reserve Agency of the Consell Insular and the Ciutadella Artistic Circle Photoclub seeks to disseminate the island’s nocturnal landscape and the Starlight certifications to the quality of our sky through the eyes of professional and amateur photographers.
‘We have an exceptional night sky in Menorca. Its preservation benefits the proper functioning of our ecosystems and can be an opportunity for the development of ecotourism initiatives in line with this preservation. That is why this collaboration with Menorca Airport makes so much sense’, added the councillor.
The exhibition will display the photographs of the winners and finalists of the competition in the 5 categories presented, which show the diversity of landscapes that can be enjoyed on the island under the light of the stars. Of particular note are the archaeological elements of Talayotic Menorca, with images of the Naveta des Tudons and various enclosures of Taula, or the photographs taken in some of the island’s iconic places, such as Sa Nitja or the salt flats of Mongofre. The photographic composition in which people appear, the Menorcan natural environment and seascape, or the island’s villages under the starry sky are also widely represented.
The exhibition at Menorca airport will be the last travelling exhibition of these images. All the winning photographs of the second edition of the competition can be viewed on the competition website: https://www.menorcabiosfera.org/StarLight/Fotos.aspx?PUB=9653&FILTRO=134