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Welcome to the Annual Trinity College Study Away Photo Contest!
Below are submissions from students who studied abroad recently.
This year we invite all students to send us their votes on their favorite photos. The OIP has selected four members of the Trinity community to judge the contest.
Submissions are based on two categories: People and Places. Each photo is accompanied by a short description from students about what their photo signifies to them.
Photograph 1 by Anthony L. Riley - Naranjito, Ecuador: "I wonder more and more if the first thing should not be to know people by name, to eat and drink with them, to listen to their stories and tell your own, and to let them know with words, handshakes and hugs that you do not simple like them, but you truly love them." -Henri Nouwen
Photograph 2 by Brian Tak - This picture illustrates the reality of a divided Korea and the two very separate paths they have chosen. It depicts the atmosphere of the two countries shown though the stark contrast of the South Korean soldiers in an informal stance while the North Korean in the background remains rigid.
Photograph 3 by Brian Tak - This picture shows a Korean girl in a formal Korean dress called a Hanbok. She is at a museum in the heart of Seoul and it illustrates Korea’s deep sense of tradition, which is still very prevalent in what is now the eleventh strongest economy in the world.
Photograph 4 by Ellen Cohn- This picture was taken on a weekend trip in a small town north of Barcelona called Puigcerda.The town is situated in the Pyrenees right on the border with France. This sunset occured as we walked to France from the town. It is one of my fondest memories of my entire experience abroad and still, one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.
Photograph 5 by Andrew Pedro - This is a photograph of the "pinya" or base of a "castellers" or castle in Catalan. The castellers is a tradition in which people stand on top of one another to create a human tower. The photograph is especially meaningful because it symbolizes the collectivist nature of the Catalan people.
Photograph 6 by Femi Faoye - "Algorta Beach Sunset"- this photo was taken during my last night in Bilbao before returning to America. The sunset captures the kind end to my great journey in Europe.
Photograph 7 by Jason Azevedo - Coimbra, Portugal: This photo depicts the door of a traditional house in the Monsanto village. Perched between huge boulders on the side of a Mountain, Monsanto was named "The Most Portuguese Village in Portugal" in 1938).
Photograph 8 by Judene Small (submitted by Heather Moore) - Trinity-in-Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa: Walking down the main road from our flat towards UCT looking towards Table Mountain on a cloudy day. Looking back at this photograph, I learned that no matter how difficult it was to be abroad, and how many trials and tribulations I faced on any given day, there was nothing more beautiful than having Table Mountain as your backdrop to wake you up every morning.
Photograph 9 by Michael Aryee - “There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself. You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it…” - the Paris of Robert Doisneau, in which spectacle is found not in the adjacent Eiffel Tower but on a rain soaked dirt patch, in the everyday gestures of ordinary people.
Photograph 10 by Michael Aryee - Cosmo-Polis: Taken in the Ouazarte dessert of Morocco, under the ominous gaze of the mythical Atlas Mountains, it is the human subject which emerges nonetheless as the focal point of this image. Much like the resilient dromedaries which brave the barren dessert, in Morocco an exotic and imposing landscape stripped Englishman, Spaniard and Arab alike of the contingent - nationality and ethnicity; and preserved as essential - the simple & universal recognition of the moral individual.
Photograph 11 by Kat Conlon - This is the Black Desert in the Sahara. This is me, standing on top of a mountain looking at my surroundings. The Black Desert, created by wind eroding the dark, rocky outcrops, begins 12 miles south of Bahariyya. It was the most unbelievable sight-- I couldn't believe wind had made what appeared to be hundreds of miniature volcanoes.
Photograph 12 by Kat Conlon - This is my boyfriend walking down the stairs of a chamber in the Temple of Horus at Edfu, which is the largest and best preserved Ptolemaic temple in Egypt. The stairs lead from the hall of offerings to the roof, which as glorious views of the Nile and the surrounding fields. The staircase walls are beautifully decorated with scenes from the New Year festival, a ritual celebrated in temples all over Egypt. I like this picture because I learned a great deal about mysticism of the Gods in Ancient Egypt, and this looks incredibly religious to me.
Photograph 13 by Suheyla Nurlu - The Eiffel Tower, Paris France. It is just beautiful.
Photograph 14 by Suheyla Nurlu - Tiny Street, Monpellier, France. On the Place de la Comedie in Monpelier, there were university students, carrying signs that said "Free Hugs!" Obviously, we took advantage of this free labor!!
Photograph 15 by Suheyla Nurlu - Children in Grand Place, Brussels, Belgium. The Grand Place is the most beautiful publilc plaza in Europe. On the day I visited Brussels, there was a group of children playing right on the plaza and it was a picture-perfect moment.
Photograph 16 by Joseph Kenol - Although the gargoyles are small in comparison to the greater structure of the Catherdral they have become representative of Notre Dame de Paris. In this image the gargoyle dwarfs La Tour Eiffel which has come to dominate the French landscape. The River Seine serves as a gateway to these world-renowned landmarks.
Photograph 17 by Dan Cosgrove - A river in Kruger National Park, the largest game reserve in South Africa. The combination of magnificent animals and amazing sunsets offer a sense of tranquility and wonder at the beauty of nature. Though lions, leopards and rhinos lurk around every corner, this river was safe and stunning in the early evening.
Photograph 18 by Dan Cosgrove - Sinu, my host sister in the Langa township of Cape Town, South Africa. She never stops smiling. Sinu lives with her grandmother, Nomaladii. Her father is dead and her mother works too far to live at home, a common example of a divided family in post-apartheid South Africa.
Photograph 19 by Summer Cannon - Trinity College Rome Campus, Rome, Italy: This photo was taken at a Roma soccer match in February. Have we won? No... the players are just jogging onto the field (you should see when they win). Never come between a Roman and his or her love for "calcio" and, more specifically, for player Francesco Totti.
Photograph 20 by Summer Cannon - Trinity College Rome Campus, Rome, Italy: This photo was taken from the Rialto Bridge in Venezia. The beloved "gondolas" and historic building mixed with powerboats and cable rods shows how the old is mixed with the new in interesting and aesthetic ways.
Photograph 21 by Elizabeth Fritzer - Here are two separate protests outside the gates of Parliament. (Left): Representatives for Amnesty International demonstrating against unfair detainment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. (Right): A Muslim group gathers beneath the statue of Winston Churchill preparing for a march. This photo illustrates the visible declining support for Prime Minister Tony Blair as residents grew increasingly weary over talks of his resignation as well as the U.K.'s involvement in the Iraq War.
Photograph 22 by Elizabeth Fritzer - This photgraph was taken at St. Luke's Church in Liverpool, England that was burned by an incendiary bomb in World War II during the Blitz. Though never rebuilt, its architectural shell now serves as a memorial to those affected by the Irish famine and the boats are an aesthetic tribute for the Biennial Art Festival. This servers as an example that there is not only history, but beauty in things damaged.
Photograph 23 by Mark Durney - The Basilica is also known as the "Pantheon of the Italian Glories" because of the preeminent list of Renaissance figures interred there, including Galileo, Machiavelli, and Michelangelo. As a History major it was humbling to travel abroad and gain a better perspective on how America has descended from European roots.
Photograph 24 by Mark Durney - The small stature of the man is framed by the overwhelming facade of the Royal Naval College. The College attests to a city's perseverance in the face of adversity that was the Great Fire of London. British Baroque style reasserted authority and the absolutist ideology after this period of chaos.
Photograph 25 by Jackie Kahan - One of the many breathtaking views from the Salar de Atacama. The Andes mountains and the Moon are in the dropback of this picture of the salt rock formation.
Photograph 26 by Jackie Kahan - This photo was taken in Valle de la Muerte (The Valley of Death), horseback riding in the desert.
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