The UNMC Office of Global Engagement has announced the winners of its sixth annual International Photo Contest. The contest had 15 faculty/staff and 15 student/resident participants, for a total of 74 photos submitted.
The international photos were judged based on originality and creativity, photographic quality and communication of culture and place. The contest had three categories for submissions: Cityscapes/architecture, landscapes/nature and people/animals with first prize winners for each division.
The winners are:
Grand prize winner:
- Ridhi Bhola, “Before the Vows”
Student/resident winners:
- Cityscapes/architecture first place: Ridhi Bhola “Living Canvas”
- Landscapes/nature first place: Kendra Kozisek, “Oishi Park”
- People/animals first place: Ridhi Bhola, “Before the Vows”
- Honorable mention: Manisha Ghising “Mani Stone Piles”
- Honorable mention: Santosh Shrestha, “Golden Horizon”
- Honorable mention: Santosh Shrestha, “Echoes of Tradition”
Faculty/staff winners:
- Cityscapes/architecture first place: Annette Guy, “The Orange Tree”
- Landscapes/mature first place: Suranji Wijekoon, “Fortress of a Forgotten Empire”
- People/animals first place: Santiago Ortiz Barragan, “The Bloom of Oaxaca”
- Honorable mention: Suranji Wijekoon, “Echoes of Calm: A Buddhist Sanctuary”
- Honorable mention: Maha Farid, “Listening to the Ocean”
- Honorable mention: Irving Zucker, “Harbor Boats, Cassis France”
- Honorable mention: Yuka Collison, “The Torchbearer”
Congratulations to all!!