Pinoy winner in Germany's EyeEm 2019 photography competition

Filipino photographer Marlon Villaverde from Lucban, Quezon  has won the 2019 EyeEm Awards (photojournalist category) for his “Mahal na Senyor” or “Image of the dead Christ” photo.

EyeEm Awards is considered the world’s biggest photography competition, joined this year by about a million photographers from several parts of the world.

For EyeEm 2019, photographers –pro or non-pro –were allowed to send in entries under 10 categories, including: The mobile photographer, The traveller, The street photographer, The great outdoors, The minimalist, The portraitist, The architect, The creative, The foodie, and The photojournalist.

Marlon said his winning photo was taken in Lucban, Quezon during a procession of the image of the “Mahal na Senyor” (or the image of the dead Christ) on a Good Friday of the Catholics' Lenten tradition.

He said his victory is one big day in his life he will never forget, adding that he offered his triumph for his town and  the whole country. —LBG, GMA News