CIIS Photo Contest

Patti McGill Peterson Center for International and Intercultural Studies

CIIS has a photo contest every 18 months for students who have participated in a SLU off-campus program (which includes the Adirondack Semester, the Washington Semester Program and Fisk University), a SLU course with a travel component a SLU summer course or a SLU-sponsored research/travel grant. The photographs are used for promoting SLU off-campus programs, on various web pages, and the winning photographs are displayed in Carnegie Hall.

The next photo contest deadline will be November 1, 2010. If you would like more information feel free to contact us.

Details & rules available online.

  • First Place
    Cityscape/landscape
    Photo by
    Hannah James '11
    In a country of 4 million people and 34 million sheep, you will never see just one of these grazers in a pasture.
  • First Place
    Cityscape/landscape
    Photo by
    Here is a herd of elephants crossing in front of Mt. Kilimanjaro at Amboseli National Park - a rare and beautiful sight!
  • First Place
    Cultural moment
    Photo by
    Sam Gradess '11
    Iain is sitting on Omaha beach (one of America’s embarked beaches during D-Day) to discover the feeling of landing in Dec. 1944
  • First Place
    Detail
    Photo by
    Isabella Bruno, '11
    the grounds keeper gino, his cat bella signora, and a friend kelly, in front of the art building, every day buisness, cleaning..
  • First Place
    SLU student
    Photo by
    Megan Gallagher, '11
    Hannah James, 11’ playing mother to two young calves on Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand
  • Second Place
    Cityscape/landscape
    Photo by
    Casey O'Brien '11
    A rider crosses the ruins of Palmyra in central Syria
  • Second Place
    Cultural moment
    Photo by
    Anna Bromley '11
    This shule ya kijana, or school boy, sits in a class of forty as his solo teacher writes English vocabulary words on the board.
  • Second Place
    Detail
    Photo by
    Anne Michalek, '11
    Every day on my way to work I would pass by Dhows sailing across the Indian Ocean around the island during my independent study
  • Second Place
    SLU student
    Photo by
    William (Cameron) West, '11
    Matthias Nevins is seen drawing out the metal. He practices the methods and motions which he must learn for his final project.
  • Honorable Mention
    Cityscape/landscape
    Photo by
    Amanda Durocher '11
    The mornings were breathtaking- and they were the only time in my college career where I have been okay, and even happy, to wake
  • Honorable Mention
    Cultural moment
    Photo by
    Julia Logan '11
    Morgan Pickett, another SLU student, explores the Celtic ancient ruins on Santa Tecla.
  • Honorable Mention
    Cultural moment
    Photo by
    Peter Clancey, '11
    This picture was taken during a field trip to Mae Chaem. The man lived by himself in his little house as a bronzer all his life.
  • Honorable Mention
    Detail
    Photo by
    Lindsay Tarolli, '12
    While on my long study tour in Bruges, I watched a young boy in Burg Square ferociously battle his balloons while at a wedding.
  • Honorable Mention
    SLU student
    Photo by
    Merika Wilson, '12
    After meeting a St. Lawrence University board of trustee member, we ventured to an elephant hospital in Northern Thailand.