Views from Away
The Views from Away Photo Competition is held every year. Three images taken by students who studied away in the previous year are chosen as prizewinners, with the announcement of the prizewinners coinciding with International Education Week. You can see all the most recent entries below. Click on a thumbnail image for a larger version.
Views from Away, 2006-07
The 2006-07 competition has opened, with the return of students away in the fall of 2006. The entries are below, in order of submission.
Amy Ahearn (SITA, Madurai, India)
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| A roadside image from Kerala, India. |
Fruit sellers in downtown Hyderabad, taken in the marketplace outside the city's largest mosque. Women in black burquas carefully select colorful fruit. |
8th standard schoolgirls in the Madurai government school where I conducted my independent study project. The blackboard behind the girls reads: "Knowledge is Power." |
Jillian Neary (IES, Barcelona, Spain)
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| Correfoc festival, Barcelona. This is a long procession/parade of fire crackers, flames, and people dressed as devils, held during the La Merce weekend. |
At the Camp Nou soccer stadium for FC Barcelona. I am with my roommate from the program and we are wearing signature jerseys. |
Artist hidden behind paintings. Taken on our orientation trip to Collioure, a small French port just over the Spanish border. |
Views from Away, 2005-06
The winning images for the 2005-06 competition are as follows:
1st. Ted Power, "Street Cricket"
2nd. Mike Igoe, "A Lively Discussion"
=3rd. Samantha Weiss, "Souk in Rissani"
=3rd. Hope Stockton, "Venice"
Congratulations to the winners! An honorable mention goes to the other finalists, Julia Smith ("Bringing the Goats Home"), Sarah Scott ("Haggis, Neeps, and Tatties"), and Ted Power -- again -- ("Procession"). And thanks to all who submitted their inspiring and beautiful images.
All the entries for 2005-06
Dylan Brix (COPA, Mendoza, Argentina)
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| Celebration for the Grape Pickers |
Tucked away in the Andes |
Conversation after the Weekly Football Game |
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| Street Cricket |
Procession |
Posters |
Julia Smith (SIT, Tanzania)
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| Brothers Ikayo and Melia at dinner |
Jacqueline on our Bangata farm |
Bringing the goats home at sunset |
Keirnan Willett (SIT, Madagascar)
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| Flying White Plate. A young resident of Marobe in the southern coastal village of Faux-Cap learns the American sport of frisbee. |
Chameleon. One of the most colorful species in Madagascar. |
Market Day in Faux-Cap. Children gather around the digital camera. |
Alice Lee (API, Cadiz, Spain)
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| Sleeping Cat. This cat was sleeping in a corner of the roof at El Escorial, an incredibly old muslim palace in Granada, Spain. |
Antennae. Sunset behind buildings in La Plaza Falla in Cadiz, Spain. |
Cadiz Shoreline. The western shoreline of Cadiz, Spain on a windy day, looking toward Playa Victoria and La Parte Nueva. |
Nick Collins (U. of Minnesota, Montpellier, France)
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| Amphithéâtre at night |
Sacré Coeur from Orsay |
Painting at Collioure |
Jade Dunn (National University of Ireland, Galway)
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| Dublin Canal |
Wave Rider |
Up and Away |
Diana Heald (COPA, Buenos Aires)
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| I went to Rosario, Argentina's second largest city, on a weekend trip. We went to the park to feed the fish and sit by the water. We met these two girls and they asked me to take their picture--no one had ever taken a picture of them before. |
A fashion show during Buenos Aires Fashion Week in early March of 2006. I interned at a travel agency with a guy who also did PR for Fashion Week. |
Iguazu Waterfalls, on the border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Eleanor Roosevelt visited the falls on a trip to South America and is supposed to have said, "Poor Niagara!" |
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| The Central Market in Irkutsk, Siberia. Everything from caviar to pirated DVDs. |
A strong wind on Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world.td>
| A lively discussion at the Buddhist monastery, Ulan Bataar, Mongolia. |
Karina van Schaardenburg (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
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| An Orange Canal. This was the nationwide celebration for Queen's Day. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded Amsterdam's streets and canals dressed in orange, the Dutch national color.
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Obligatory Windmill. De Valk, one of the windmills in the center of Leiden.
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I'm too short for this country. I was 5'4" living in the tallest country in the world.
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Mark Viehman (Hamilton in Paris)
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| Students and workers in Paris protest new labor laws. |
Chateau gardens, Loire Valley. |
White mosque among Berber troglodytic homes in the Northern Sahara. Chenini, Tunisia. |
Mary Kate Wheeler (School for Field Studies, Costa Rica)
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| Bromeliads |
High-altitude plant life on Cerro de la Muerte |
World Surf Kayak Championship at Esterillos Oeste |
Mina Bartovics (University of Otago, New Zealand)
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| Bull Kelp swaying in the tide. South Island, New Zealand. |
My brother in the back country of Treble Cone Snow Park. Wanaka, New Zealand. |
Kea, the mountain parrot. They will eat anything from bread to snowboard racks. Milford Track, West Coast of the South Island, New Zealand. |
Kira Chappelle (IES, Barcelona)
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| Dutch Cousins. The towers of Gaudí's Sagrada Familia with the city of Barcelona below as the sun is setting.
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Ibiza. Erin Furey '07 and another student watching the sunrise in Ibiza. |
Mercè. A 4 a.m. concert from Barcelona's biggest and most celebrated festival, La Mercè, in honor of the city's patron saint, Mare de Déu de la Mercè. |
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| McDonald's in Marrakesh
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My homestay cousin Samira getting dressed up for Leila al-qadr |
Souk in Rissani |
Daniel Jaffe (James Cook University, Australia)
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| One of the most important parts of the experience is making friends with some of the locals. |
With a population half the size of California, it was amazing how crowded some places could get. |
Not your average lecture... |
Torin Peterson (BADA, London Theatre Programme)
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| Mick Barnfather, member of Théâtre de Complicité and professor at BADA, drowns in a sea of student love |
The stage of the Globe Theatre in London (complete with wood columns painted to look like marble!) |
An overnight journey from London, followed by an early morning hike, allows us to admire Edinburgh and the North Sea |
Margaret Munford (University of Edinburgh)
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| Isle of Skye, Scotland. This reminded me of the
Maine Coast, but was taken on the other side of the Atlantic. Much of my experience in Scotland seemed, at times, like a mutation of
American life (although the Scots would argue it's the other way around). |
Roma, Italy. I found all sorts of back passage-ways through Roman neighborhoods and stumbled upon this fountain
where some clever Italian had graffitied "Fontanella". I found both the word and the fountain refreshing. |
Amanda Escobar-Gramigna (School for Field Studies, Mexico)
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| Magdalena Bay, Mexico is visited by the gray whale every winter and with fellow students on the SFS program I worked on photo identification of the gray whale. |
Loretto, Mexico was the site of one of our camping trips where we learned about coral reefs and saw this beautiful sunset.
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Locally known as La Purisima, it's an oasis in the desert which was the site of a class and this palm.
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Jin-Sun Kim (International Honors Program)
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| Black Sand Beaches of Piha, Auckland, New Zealand |
Auckland city at sunset, after a day of fishing
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Protests at twilight, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Lili Mugnier (NYU, Florence)
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| The Tomb of the Leopards in the Etruscan necropolis at Tarquinia. To actually enter these tombs and see the paintings in their original setting was invaluable. |
Necropolis of the Etruscan city of Norchia. On this trip, our professor got us into a closed land reserve which is not open to anyone, except apparently him and his Etruscan Art and Archaeology class. We hiked into the city and then across the ravine to the necropolis which is largely unexcavated.
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A later Etruscan tomb next to the sarcophagus that is still in place with an incredible relief showing the inscription of an Etruscan name and a scene from the Trojan War
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Becca Perry (Lancaster University, England)
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| Sheep we shared the mountain with on a Lancaster University Hiking Club trip |
A Tarn at the top of a Lancaster University Hiking Club hike
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Hadrian at a Pre-Session field trip to Hadrian's Wall
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Jenny Wong (Dickinson in Toulouse, France)
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| Mirail University on Strike 2006. Chairs blocked the entrances to the Mirail University in Toulouse, closing the school for three months as students protested the CPE. |
Une Manifestation Typique. Protests were a multi-weekly occurrence in the streets of Toulouse. After months of striking, the protestors achieved their goal of revoking the new employment law.
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Prairie des Filtres. A Toulousain provides entertainment at the Prairie des Filtres along the Garonne River with the typical pink faced Toulouse buildings as his setting.
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John Greene (Middlebury in Irkutsk, Russia)
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| Small village on Lake Baikal, accessible only by water |
Buddhist prayer flags on an island sacred to the local Siberian Buddhists and Shamans
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One of the few remaining statues of Lenin in Irkutsk, Russia or as many people call it, the Paris of Siberia
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Sarah Horn (University of Cape Town)
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| Our guide in the Okavango Delta, Botswana |
Solitary trek in Coffee Bay, Wild Coast of South Africa
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Children from a Township school
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Amy Lee (School for Field Studies, Kenya)
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| Ostrich family. A threatened ostrich mother protects her chicks from a large vehicle full of students. |
Maasai men. These men gather together at an age set ceremony to celebrate the murran (warriors) becoming junior elders.
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Elephant family. The strong family bond between elephants, extremely social animals, is essential for them to survive in the harsh African environment. |
Joy Lee (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
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| Edinburgh, Scotland. The austerity of her history is intertwined with the vibrancy of her urban pulse. |
Highlands of Scotland. Hiding Place. |
National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland. And that bridge has made all the difference. |
Matthew Nickel (College Year in Athens, Greece)
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| Meteora. One of seven Greek Orthodox monasteries built on mountain cliffs in central Greece. The monks built these monasteries to be secluded. |
Santorini Sunset. From Oia on the island of Santorini, a Cycladic Island in the Aegean Sea. Santorini is know for its beautiful sunsets. |
Athenian Agora. The Athenian Agora with the Acropolis in the background. This was taken while on a class field trip to study the architecture and remains of the Agora. |
Mike Nugent (IES, Barcelona)
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| Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" has been under construction since the late 1800's, and I studied Gaudí's work in my Spanish Art History course. |
On a program trip to Segovia, Spain, we saw this perfectly preserved Roman aqueduct, which operated flawlessly from the 1st to the 20th centuries. |
Columbus's statue atop the end of Barcelona's Las Ramblas points towards the New World, connecting it with the old world of Europe. |
Sarah Scott (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
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| Cow Exhibition. This cow, as part of a large art exhibition, was placed on Cowgate, the street I lived on, in a space where a theatre had burnt down. |
Hammish. Hammish is a Scottish Highland "coo" (cow). |
Haggis, Neeps and Tatties. The typical Scottish Burns Night dinner of haggis, neeps and tatties (haggis, a meat dish, turnips and potatoes). We made it ourselves! |
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| Dusk at Villa D'Este, Tivoli. A 16th-century villa most famous for its elaborate gardens and fountains, which used hydraulic techniques from the ancient Romans. |
Venice. The famously romanticized Grand Canal and Ponte dell'Accademia of historic Venice reflected in a modern day vaporetto station. |
Rome. A tiny alleyway in the historic center with an altar to the Virgin Mary surrounded by candles and other recent offerings. |
Sam Chapple-Sokol (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
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| Scott Memorial. I took a class in Scottish literature, including a book by Sir Walter Scott, the great Scottish writer who romanticized the Highland image. This picture captures the Scott Memorial as well as a Christmas market in Edinburgh. |
Old Antiques Store. Glasgow has worked hard to clean up its image. I walked by this ruined antiques store on the River Clyde once a week or so, until about midway through the semester when it had all been inexplicably cleaned up. |
iPod Advert. Glasgow, like many of the ancient Scottish cities, has had to deal with modernization. This picture exemplifies the situation: old stone arches framing an iPod ad. |
Megan Swann (Temple University, Rome)
Prize winners for 2004-05
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Sarah Thomas (Pitzer in Ecuador): Otavalo Market
First Prize |
Matthew Borroughs (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Muslim Woman at Prayer
Runner-up |
Victoria Tudor (SUNY Plattsburgh, Chile): Cobquecura
Runner-up |
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Sarah Thomas (Pitzer in Ecuador): Otavalo Market
Matthew Borroughs (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Muslim Woman at Prayer
Victoria Tudor (SUNY Plattsburgh, Chile): Cobquecura