Leather Is My Job project leaders launch photographic competition
02/03/2017
Most recently, COTANCE, the representative body of the leather industry in the European Union (EU), and trade union organisation industriAll, who have led the project, hosted a meeting in Milan during the Lineapelle exhibition to review progress.
One of the outcomes of the meeting in Milan is the launch of a photographic competition, inviting interested parties from all over Europe to submit images of people at work in tanneries to show the appeal of working with leather.
There will be a cash prize for the two photographs that project leaders like best and a third prize awarded to the picture most liked by the public. All winners will be invited to attend the final project conference in Igualada on June 8. Interested parties have until May to submit their photographs.
While at Lineapelle, COTANCE secretary-general, Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano, was invited to address the hundreds of high-school students who travelled to Milan to attend as part of an all-Italian promotion called Amici Per La Pelle.
Leather Is My Job partners, including a number of national leather industry associations, have published accounts of their work, testimonies from young people working in the industry and other resources on a dedicated website.
The original Leather Is My Job project ran in 2014, culminating in an event in Bucharest in October that year. The initiative has had the support of the European Commission.
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