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Meta Photo Contest 2009 Winners

1st Place: Kendra Rimmereid’s “Colors of India” was awarded first place in Abroad View’s 2009 Meta Photo Contest and first place in Bethel University’s Office of Off-Campus Programs’ Photo Contest, Cultural Interaction category. While interning for six weeks at Budh Shiksha Samiti, a nongovernmental organization in Jaipur that
provides girls from rural villages with a quality education, Kendra photographed these students shelling pea pods for their Sunday night dinner.

 

 

2nd Place: “A Plague of Locusts” is part of Noah Arjomand’s photographic series on a partially nomadic Kurdish tribe in eastern Turkey. Noah is a senior at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. His photo was
awarded Best in Show in the Princeton Study Abroad Program
Office of International Programs’ Photo Contest and 2nd place
in Abroad View’s 2009 Meta Photo Contest. You can visit Noah's website at www.storiesfromaway.com.

 

3rd Place: Alexander Kwong photographed one of Hong Kong's last remaining temples. He writes about this image: “In the rapidly changing urban fabric of a modern Asian mega-city, the past routinely falls to the wayside in the name of progress. Even street markets and traditional Chinese BBQ restaurants, fixtures of Hong Kong life for my parents only 60 years ago, are becoming distant memories. In the shadow of Hong Kong's Central district of signature skyscrapers and multinational corporations, Man Mo Temple is a remnant of ancient Chinese architecture and culture. The woman in the photo plants incense and pays her respects to the temple's guardians, Man Tai and Mo Tai, gods of literature and war, respectively.”

Alexander Kwong graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2009 with a B.S. in architecture. His photograph placed 1st in the “Cultural Snapshot” category of the UTA Study Abroad Contest and it placed 3rd in Abroad View's 2009 Meta Photo Contest.

 

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Nelson, a Muhlenberg College graduate, photographed this view from a sacred meditation cave in Tibet. He studied in India with World Learning/SIT Study Abroad. His photo was awarded the 2nd grand prize in World Learning/SIT Study Abroad’s 2008 photo contest and received an honorable mention in Abroad View’s 2009 Meta Photo Contest.