Please enjoy the Fall 2007 Artistic Image winner and honorable mentions below. Click on the pictures to view a bigger version.
Overall Winner
"Child with Sewing Machine"
Mackenzie Lawrence
George Washington University
CIEE Study Center in Hanoi, Vietnam
As for the photo, it was taken in a small White Hmong village off the highway in the middle of Ha Giang province, the northernmost province in Vietnam. Everyone in the village was thrilled to see us visiting them - we brought gifts and the children loved playing with my blonde hair. But the girl in the photo was not so impressed. She stood against the wood slats of her one-room home with a frown until I came over to try to speak with her. Very few people in the village spoke the traditional Vietnamese that I had been learning in my class in Hanoi, but she was able to understand my rudimentary vocabulary enough to tell me that the sewing machine belonged to her and that she was learning to make clothes with it. She seemed pleased with how impressed I was, but never smiled. Considering how we, a group of eight foreigners, barreled down her dirt road and into her home, she remained protective of herself and her family. I did, however, get a nod of approval to take this picture of her, and I was lucky it came out embodying her strong will and beauty.
Honorable Mentions
"The Trumpeter of St. Petersburg"
Alykhan Mohamed
Tufts University
CIEE Study Center in St. Petersburg, Russia
"Noel a Bruxelles"
Chelsea Ducharme
George Washington University
CIEE Study Center in Brussels, Belgium
"Self Portrait While Riding My Bike"
Katie Bell
Cedarville University
CIEE Study Center in Ferrara, Italy
"Plenty of Pigeons"
Danielle Morris
University of Colorado at Boulder
CIEE Study Center in Sevilla, Spain
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