2024 Global Photo Contest
We want to see how you have engaged globally! Submit your favorite photo showing us how you have participated in global education this past year. We will select one photo from each of the following categories: People, Places, Culture.
Each photographer may submit one photo per category, for a total of up to three photos.
Submit your contest entry here before 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22.
Check out previous winners below.
International Education Week events: Nov. 18–22
We are excited to celebrate International Education Week with you this year!
All events are 12–2 p.m. in the second floor Weter Lounge.
- Monday , Nov. 18: SPU International Staff and Faculty Poster Fair.
- Tuesday, Nov. 19: Featuring Intercultural Club Council — Engage with some of our student intercultural clubs and orgs such as Vietnamese Student Association and African Student Association.
- Wednesday, Nov. 20: Exploring the World — Come learn about some of our cross-cultural study away opportunities.
- Thursday, Nov.21: Culture Share — Students from the GS 1007: Cultural Adjustment class will share their final projects with our community.
- Monday or Tuesday, Nov. 25 or 26: Global Photo Contest winners announced via email.
Follow OIP’s Instagram for detailed information of each event throughout the week. Email oip@spu.edu if you have questions.
Listen to International Music
Experience traditional marimba selections from Guatemala and drumming of Susu Ethnic Group of Southwest Guinea at the Percussion Ensemble Concert
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: E.E. Bach Theater in McKinley Hall
Previous contest winners
The 2021 International Photo Contest
Students, staff, and faculty were invited to submit photos from their journeys around the world. Photos are the original work of the person submitting the photo and all were taken outside the United States.
Culture:
Photo Winner – Keelan Long
Walking up the steps to Guan Yin, the Buddhist “Goddess of Mercy”
Andrew Macpherson
Fan shows support during an Olympique Lyonnais football game
Lucy Urbach
Standing room only performance in Shakespeare’s globe Theater
People:
Cynthia Strong
A young boy and his grandmother enter the Spasso-Yakovlevsky Monastery in Rostove, Russia
Hope Evans
Mom singing and sharing music with children in Jamaica
Lucy Urbach
American tourist hold up the Temple of Zeus in Athens
Place:
Julia Chen
A long road in Xinjiang Province
Cynthia Strong
Exploring the canals of Venice
Keelan Long
Looking through the stained glass at a boat in the Golden Triangle ( the intersection of Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos)