Views from Away Photo Competition

Views from Away Photo Competition

2007-2008: Part 3

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. Click on the small images to see them larger.

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Kristina Ng (University College London)

Venice, Italy. Young at heart, this band of elderly gents participate in a gondola race. Barcelona, Spain. In Park Guell designed by artist Gaudi, a few old friends sit and chat while reading the paper. London. A boy and other observers watch and communicate LIVE with New Yorkers through a device known as the Telectroscope. The Brooklyn Bridge can be seen.
Venice, Italy. Young at heart, this band of elderly gents participate in a gondola race.
 Barcelona, Spain. In Park Guell designed by artist Gaudi, a few old friends sit and chat while reading the paper.
 London. A boy and other observers watch and communicate LIVE with New Yorkers through a device known as the Telectroscope. The Brooklyn Bridge can be seen.

Nicholas Peddle (IES, Berlin)

Faces. This is a memorial at the Jewish Museum in Berlin Olympiastadium. Olympic Stadium in Munich, site of the 1972 Summer Olympics Victory. Germany had just beaten Turkey in the semi-finals of the Euro Cup
Faces. This is a memorial at the Jewish Museum in Berlin Olympiastadium. Olympic Stadium in Munich, site of the 1972 Summer Olympics Victory. Germany had just beaten Turkey in the semi-finals of the Euro Cup

Tony Perry (CIEE, University of Ghana, Legon)

A dungeon at the Elmina Castle in Ghana where captured West African slaves were kept until a boat was ready to take them to the Americas The Ghana sky above the University of Ghana towards the end of the day A waterfall in one of Ghana's national parks
A dungeon at the Elmina Castle in Ghana where captured West African slaves were kept until a boat was ready to take them to the Americas The Ghana sky above the University of Ghana towards the end of the day A waterfall in one of Ghana's national parks

Alison Pilon (Temple University, Rome)

The first time I saw the Colosseum was at night. I had been in the city nearly a week before I figured out how to get there. I was still learning how to use my camera and am quite surprised that this night photo came out so well For my Ancient Roman Culture course I took a weekend trip to Pompeii and Paestum. Getting to see the temples at Paestum was a highlight of my semester abroad I traveled to Spoleto, Italy for a weekend trip with two friends. We spent one day hiking just outside the main city. We stumbled upon an old abandoned home and my friend captured this great silhouette of me looking out of one of the windows
The first time I saw the Colosseum was at night. I had been in the city nearly a week before I figured out how to get there. I was still learning how to use my camera and am quite surprised that this night photo came out so well For my Ancient Roman Culture course I took a weekend trip to Pompeii and Paestum. Getting to see the temples at Paestum was a highlight of my semester abroad I traveled to Spoleto, Italy for a weekend trip with two friends. We spent one day hiking just outside the main city. We stumbled upon an old abandoned home and my friend captured this great silhouette of me looking out of one of the windows

Jordan Samiljan (CET, Mediterranean Studies, Sicily)

Carnevale in Catania Il Duomo in central Catania Dusk and the Prague Castle
Carnevale in Catania Il Duomo in central Catania Dusk and the Prague Castle

Erin Taylor (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

Edinburgh City at Night. A view from South Bridge which divides New Town and Old Town. The Castle, Princes Street, and National Gallery are visible Highland Traffic. A pack of Highland cows surrounded us as we drove through Glen Cove Isle of Skye. Peaks north of Portree
Edinburgh City at Night. A view from South Bridge which divides New Town and Old Town. The Castle, Princes Street, and National Gallery are visible Highland Traffic. A pack of Highland cows surrounded us as we drove through Glen Cove Isle of Skye. Peaks north of Portree

Lynne Tempest (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Maori archway on the trail back from the Kalkoura Peninsula Hiking break on the way to Mueller Hut Deer Park Heights reflection
Maori archway on the trail back from the Kalkoura Peninsula Hiking break on the way to Mueller Hut Deer Park Heights reflection

Alaina Thomas (CIEE, Dakar, Senegal)

Children playing with a peanut mill in a rural village. We went to conduct a survey on malnutrition, and the children are listening to their mother as she tells them that we are going to take their measurements My host family in Dakar, Senegal. The women are both wearing the traditional Senegalese boubou, though the shiny fabric is clearly not traditional A Dogon hunter in a village on the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali. His hut is covered with the skulls and pelts of animals he's killed, and his guns are leaning against the wall. His son looks on as he braids twine and listens to the radio hanging behind him.
Children playing with a peanut mill in a rural village. We went to conduct a survey on malnutrition, and the children are listening to their mother as she tells them that we are going to take their measurements My host family in Dakar, Senegal. The women are both wearing the traditional Senegalese boubou, though the shiny fabric is clearly not traditional A Dogon hunter in a village on the Bandiagara escarpment in Mali. His hut is covered with the skulls and pelts of animals he's killed, and his guns are leaning against the wall. His son looks on as he braids twine and listens to the radio hanging behind him.

Sunanda Vaz (CIEE, University of Ghana, Legon)

Market woman selling food with her child at Independence Square in Ghana Traditional African music group performing for our program at the International Students Welcome Durba Night view from our canoe of the Black Volta River at a hippo sanctuary in northern Ghana
Market woman selling food with her child at Independence Square in Ghana Traditional African music group performing for our program at the International Students Welcome Durbar Night view from our canoe of the Black Volta River at a hippo sanctuary in northern Ghana

Peter Wadden (SIT, Switzerland -- Development Studies & Public Health)

A park in Cairo where I traveled with two friends from my program. The minarets in the background are those of the Temple of Mohamed Ali My friends Max and Paul hiking a trail in the Swiss Alps with the Eiger in the background A reflection in a mountain lake above Interlaken, Switzerland where I had traveled for a weekend with some friends from my program in Geneva
A park in Cairo where I traveled with two friends from my program. The minarets in the background are those of the Temple of Mohamed Ali My friends Max and Paul hiking a trail in the Swiss Alps with the Eiger in the background A reflection in a mountain lake above Interlaken, Switzerland where I had traveled for a weekend with some friends from my program in Geneva

Stephen West (Glasgow School of Art, Scotland)

Mix these and you get the Full Monty. Delicious. Anyone who ever defended Scotish “cuisine” may now sit down. A serendipitous scene in a Florentine street market. Or possibly an edgy marketing ploy—really it’s best not to over-speculate lest we tarnish the moment. Tobogganing, Grindelwald, Switzerland. The Alps are one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and sledding them is more fun than an Amsterdam coffee shop
Mix these and you get the Full Monty. Delicious. Anyone who ever defended Scotish “cuisine” may now sit down. A serendipitous scene in a Florentine street market. Or possibly an edgy marketing ploy—really it’s best not to over-speculate lest we tarnish the moment. Tobogganing, Grindelwald, Switzerland. The Alps are one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and sledding them is more fun than an Amsterdam coffee shop

Helen Wey (IES, Madrid)

Interlaken, Switzerland London, England Tangier, Morocco
Interlaken, Switzerland London, England Tangier, Morocco