Photo Essay Contest

SPRING 2013 CULTURAL IMMERSION PHOTO ESSAY CONTEST

CULTURAL IMMERSION PHOTO ESSAY CONTEST

The London Undergraduate Program is pleased to announce two photo essay competitions, which are designed to reinforce the principal ideal of the London Undergraduate Program—cultural immersion in international contexts.

The two contests are:

Photo Essay 1 - London/UK

- an essay of 750-1,000 words explaining how some aspect of the cultural life of London or any site in the UK has contributed to their educational experience in one or more classes currently taken in the London Undergraduate Program.

Photo Essay 2 - Abroad

- an essay of 750-1,000 words explaining how some aspect of the cultural life of a country outside the UK has contributed to their educational experience in one or more classes currently taken in the London Undergraduate Program.

The focus of the essays could be a neighbourhood, a regional setting, a museum, a play, a concert, a monument, a church, a public building, a market, an institution, or any other aspect of cultural life that bears an important relation to students’ classes. The essay should be accompanied by 3-5 photos, selected and arranged to help illuminate the point of the essay.

Students are encouraged to be creative and innovative in their thinking, which means that the topic of the essay need not be part of a course syllabus.

Evaluation of photo essays will be made according to: 1) the significance of the cultural immersion in relation to educational experience; 2) the eloquence of the writing; 3) the relevance of the photos to the argument of the essay.

Two students may submit a single photo essay as a co-authored work.

Award: £50 for each category. In the event that the winning photo essay is co-authored, students will divide the £50 award equally.

Website Feature: The winning photo essays will be featured on the London Program website.

Deadline: Photo essays should be submitted to Alice Tyrell at: Tyrell.5@nd.edu before 9am, Monday 15th April . Each essay should be formated as a single file - you may need to re-scale your photos to reduce the file size of your submission.

The London Undergraduate Program reserves the right to publish all submissions on its website.

Fall 2012 Photo Essay 1 - London/UK

Winner : London: An Engineer’s Playground by Julia Concelman

Fall 2012 Photo Essay 2 - Abroad

Winner: Cultural Artists by Katie Dickerson

Past Winners

Spring 2012 0 Photo Essay 1 - London/UK

Winner: Wander your way home by Kathleen Hull

Honourable Mentions:

Walking Most of London, One Cup of Coffee at a Time by Christine Hsieh

Mr. Darcy, Pemberley, and Romanticism in the 21st Century by Megan Jones

Spring 2012 - Photo Essay 2 - Abroad

Joint winners:

A Trip Back in Time at Kilmainham Gaol by Emily Conron

and

Hvem Er Jeg? Language, Migration, and the Freedom of Dislocation by Bridgit Apfeld

The winning essay for Fall 2011 was "Die Schöne Wanderweg" by Megan Bone.

Spring 2011 winners

“I’ll have a pint…to go?”: London, New York and Cultural Distinctions
by Sara Felsenstein

“Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.”

by Annie Boyle

Photo Essay 1 - London/UK

- an essay of 750-1,000 words explaining how some aspect of the cultural life of London or any site in the UK has contributed to their educational experience in one or more classes currently taken in the London Program.

Photo Essay 2 - Abroad

- an essay of 750-1,000 words explaining how some aspect of the cultural life of a country outside the UK has contributed to their educational experience in one or more classes currently taken in the London Program.

Spring 2011 distinctions

- Living History by Caitlin Monesmith
- The Reach of Romanticism by Caitlin Wilson

Spring 2011 honorable mentions

- The Renaissance Man of Athens by Nicholas Brandt
- Under the London Limelight by Nicholas Brandt
- La Vita e Bella by Kelly Kraus
- “Palm Trees in the UK?” by Meg Larson

Fall 2010 Winners