Abroad View Photo Gallery 1999-2006

Allison DeWilde captured "Bird’s Eye View" in Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. It won first place in the Willamette University 2003 Photo Contest.

photo by Thomas Lee

"Open Taxi" by Thomas Lee appeared on the cover of Abroad View magazine fall 2006.

Hitching a ride on one of these “taxis” is the cheapest way to reach an Internally Displaced People’s camp in northern Uganda. It is also the most popular form of transportation from camp to town. It is, however, a dangerous ride: Lord’s Resistance Army rebels often ambush civilian vehicles.

 

 

 

 

 


 

Photograph by Thomas Lee
For nearly 20 years, a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been waging war against the Ugandan government: burning down villages, killing civilians, abducting and forcing children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves. Based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the LRA continues to terrorize northern Uganda, causing some 1.6 million people to abandon their homes and live in Internally Displaced People (IDP) Camps. In Parabongo, an IDP camp in northern Uganda, a fire—the second that month—destroyed about 200 huts. Fires are common during dry seasons in IDP camps and spread quickly through the makeshift dwellings. Many in the camp blamed the frequent fires on witchcraft, turning to the supernatural to make sense out of a senseless situation. For complete picture stories and ways to advocate peace in northern Uganda visit: www.stylocreations.com/uganda.

Vantage Point: Rebecca Levit, of Dickinson College, kicks back at the intertidal area near her house in Wonoona, New South Wales, Australia.

Light and Water by Luke Powell
Children draw water in this water storage house in Herat, Afghanistan

Kyoto, Japan by James Jack, Williams College

Photograph by Otto Foerster. "Letters to God in a Mosque" was taken in India. It is reprinted courtesy of The Aleph, published by The Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Union College Partnership for Global Education.

A Last Look at the Twentieth Century by George Young Warner, Middlebury College

Luke Powell, renowned for the Afghan Folio that he produced in 1978 and circulated during the years of the Afghan war with the Soviet Union, photographed this Afghan woman in Kabul sewing part of a quilt on International Women’s Day, during his trip to Afghanistan in 2002 for the installation of the new Administration.

Estonia by Alexandra O’Rourke, Middlebury College

Man and Woman on Motorcycle in Katmandu, Nepal by Robert Verger

Hungary by Mary Catherine Maxwell, Middlebury College

Circles of Light by Shin Yu Pai. This picture was taken outside of a traditional Taoist temple in a small coastal town outside of Kaoshiung, Taiwan.

Shin Yu Pai received her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Her poetry appeared in Abroad View fall 2001 and her interview on the art of Japanese tea ceremonies was published in Abroad View fall 2002.

Nepal by Robert Lang, Middlebury College



While studying abroad in Chile, Trinity College senior Jessica Lind Diamond photographed this abandoned guardhouse (published, 2006).

Jana Olivova, of Middlebury College, captured this image of Peruvian men taking a lunch siesta on an island in Lake Titicaca, 2000.

Maui, Hawaii by Wilson Parry

Alleyway by Sylvia Johnson
The sunlight that penetrates this dark, narrow alleyway symbolizes that change is possible, even in the squatter housing of this “favela” community in Salvador, Brazil. This photograph is one of a photo documentary series that Sylvia, a senior international studies major at Middlebury College, created while working on a project for the youth in one of Salvador’s poorest periphery neighborhoods. A grassroots, self-mobilized project called Grupo Cultural Baguncaco uses culturally-specific education, organized primarily through percussion drumming bands, to promote awareness and keep 10 to 21–year–olds off the streets. In a place where minimum wage is approximately U.S. $60 per month, many of these children come from families living in extreme poverty. They live in neighborhoods where violence, hunger, drugs and child prostitution are daily realities. Baguncaco is a foundation for social justice that enables Salvador’s youth to see beyond their circumstances.

Unsustainable Production by Madeline Mahowald, St. John's College
Madeline captured this image while working as a photojournalism intern with the Institute for Central American Development Studies in San Jose, Costa Rica. This man from Siquirres, Costa Rica, is one of thousands of Central Americans who work on banana plantations, enduring long hours with low pay, denial of their federal rights as laborers and as human beings, and sustained, direct contact with agricultural chemicals dangerous enough to be banned in the United States. The system ensures a low price and strict standards of uniformity in such trivial aspects as banana length, width, curvature and peel coloration, but it is not sustainable. The production process sickens and kills both the environment on which it depends and the people on whom it depends.

Marie Schwieterman, of Rice University, captured this photograph of a Shinto wedding procession, as it makes its way across the courtyard at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo.

Kagbeni, Nepal by Matthew Geisler

"Does anyone here speak English?” by Nick Nash

Nick photographed this tourist wandering among the stalls at Kashgar’s Sunday market—the second largest market in the world. Kashgar, one of the most remote towns in the Xinjiang Province of China, was a trading post on the Silk Road. After graduating from Harvard University in 2000, Nash traveled the Silk Road.

Venice Italy by Jessica Grillo