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My Hometown Photo Contest

In Fall 2018, ISSS invited students to submit photos of their home town, or places representative of their home town. We wanted to learn more about the places where our students come from and give them the opportunity to share with us the beauty of their worlds. The Worldfest event committee selected ten finalist photos from a set of criteria, and at Worldfest, audience members voted on the favorite photo. All finalist photos have been printed and will hang in the ISSS Lounge, to help make ISSS a “home away from home” for international students.

Chung-Hao Liu, FIRST PLACE WINNER

Chung-Hao Liu, FIRST PLACE WINNER — Sansiantai is a famous tourist spot in Taiwan. You can not only walk through cross-ocean bridge to the small island but also enjoy the beautiful scenery because the Pacific Ocean is under your foot. – Chenggong Township, Taiwan

Chengwu Zhang, FINALIST

Chengwu Zhang, FINALIST — Local tea is cultivated in layered terraces. – Xiaogan, China

Hyun-Woo Kim, FINALIST

Hyun-Woo Kim, FINALIST — View of Taebaek mountain range from Buseoksa (Temple). – Yeong-ju, Republic of Korea

Janardhanan Raghavan, FINALIST

Janardhanan Raghavan, FINALIST — One of the longest beaches in the world, Marina beach. Picture depicts a bird’s eye view of the vast expanse of land and water and how tiny a part we play in this ecosystem. It also portrays that humans irrespective of class or quality are equal specs under Mother nature. – Chennai, India

Jingyu Xu, FINALIST

Jingyu Xu, FINALIST — This photo was taken when I traveled around China and I think it is a good one representing certain aspects of Chinese landscape. – Phoenix Ancient Town, China

Tianle Xie, FINALIST

Tianle Xie, FINALIST — DongGu Lake – Ningbo, China

Tianli Chen, FINALIST

Tianli Chen, FINALIST — A small historic villiage in Nanjing, China. I took a set of photos there, all focus on the traditional buildings in black and white and traditional color: red. – Nanjing, China

Yihang Li, FINALIST

Yihang Li, FINALIST — 5 am – Shenzhen, China

Zeqing Shao, FINALIST

Zeqing Shao, FINALIST — This photo was taken on August 7th, 2017 by me, while my parents and I were visiting the Jiuzhaigou Valley. An astonishing thing was, the next day an earthquake hit the Jiuzhaigou Country and triggered landslides and caused power failure. I appreciate what nature has brought to us, but also lament for how nature and human beings could be easily hurt by unprecedented natural disasters. – Jiuzhaigou Valley, Sichuan Province

Zijian Huang, FINALIST

Zijian Huang, FINALIST — Tranquility in a bustling city. – Shenzhen, China

Nha Truong

Nha Truong — Sunset in the lake near my house – Dong Ha, Quang Tri, Vietnam

Kim Tran

Kim Tran — The photo was taken in the morning after fishers come back from a whole night working off shore – Phan Thiet, Vietnam

Yang Zhou

Yang Zhou — High view – Shangaj, China

Chuling Wu

Chuling Wu — This is a photo of an ancient building. – Xian, China

Yiyu Chen

Yiyu Chen — Gulang Island. – Xiamen, Fujian, China

Elshaimaa Ali

Elshaimaa Ali — A beautiful sunset in Aswan and a little boat on the famous river the Nile and from the other side there are a lot of Palms – Aswan, Egypt

A B M Hasan Talukder

A B M Hasan Talukder — A typical morning around the University of Dhaka campus! – Willimantic, Bangladesh

Hyeonji Lee

Hyeonji Lee — I took the picture at ‘Dalmaji-gil’ which is the one of ‘The Eight Views of Busan’ and a promenade behind of my house. Going for a walk with my friends is the most favorite things, and the picture was taken while I was walking. – Busan, South Korea

Simin Zhang

Simin Zhang — We gave Shanghai the nick name “magic city” because it seems to have the powers to call people back. This photo was shot from the old city (west side of the bund) reflecting the modern and beauty of the new city (east side of the bund). – Shanghai, China

Mingchu Tang

Mingchu Tang — Nature and Civilization – Shenzen, China

Avinash Bhardwaj

Avinash Bhardwaj — I took the photo while I was returning home after my college. The reflection of the sunset mesmerized me and I imminently took out my phone and captured the moment. – Hartford, CT

Yu-Ju Chen

Yu-Ju Chen — Natural harbor with mountains around – Suao Town, Taiwan

Ryan Chen

Ryan Chen — The Bond night view in Shanghai. – Shanghai, China

Lakshmi Ravi Narayan

Lakshmi Ravi Narayan — Holy Cow! Cow roaming stray, with the Mysore royal palace as backdrop. Cows are smeared with turmeric as part of the rituals in the annual harvest festival (Pongal). – Mysore, Karnataka, India

Haoyang Zhu

Haoyang Zhu — Cherry blossom season. – Wuxi, China

Saurav Dhar

Saurav Dhar — Monument of freedom fighters of Bangladesh Liberation War 1971. – Khulna, Bangladesh

Joseph Mundia

Joseph Mundia — This is a cheetah. Fastest animal on land. I took the photo back in 2014 at sweet waters in my hometown. It reminds me that home is a beautiful place. It also symbolizes that my potential is limitless. I just have to focus and run for it! – Nanyuki (sweetwaters), Kenya

Xueyi Deng

Xueyi Deng — Like most small towns in China, my city for years has been trying to improve the economy and speed the urbanization process. So during the summer I visited the oldest part of the town and visited the once busiest but now dying avenue, and saw how people live in the shadow of the tall buildings. – Dongguan, China

Jibing Lin

Jibing Lin — A river across the city. – Nantong, China

Jiaxiang Cao

Jiaxiang Cao — The dark evening of old town. – HuZhou, China

Yaliang Tang

Yaliang Tang — A woman wearing traditional Japanese festival costume is standing in the center of the main street of Nagano which is my hometown. I used to dance in this festival when I was small. – Nagano, Japan

Qi Lin

Qi Lin — This photo was taken by my iPhone at dusk and the building in there is IFC. IFC is located at the heart of Guangzhou. It’s also named West Tower and formed a central axis line in Guangzhou with East Tower. – Guangzhou, China

Jingwen Ding

Jingwen Ding — Tianjin Eye, built in 2007, is a 120-metre (394 ft) tall giant Ferris wheel built above the Yongle Bridge, which is the 4th tall Ferris wheel in the world. It’s built over the Hai River, which is know as the “mother river”, in Tianjin, China. The picture was taken on a cruise on Hai River. – Tianjin, China

Haomin Liu

Haomin Liu — Sunset, River, Pavilion – Jilin, China

Lily Kwok

Lily Kwok — A day at Las Cuevas beach along Trinidad’s North Coast. – Las Cuevas, Trinidad and Tobago

Prabodha Abeykoon

Prabodha Abeykoon — I lived in a rural area back in Sri Lanka, surrounded by trees rather than buildings. So I want to call this “MY HOME VILLAGE”. This is the view I saw every morning for past 25 years – different shades and shapes of green, right in front of my house. I never valued it those days, but now I miss it everyday. – Galagedara, Sri Lanka

Ayush Sengupta

Ayush Sengupta — The city of Kolkata which houses millions, is a mix of modernity and nostalgia. It is crowded, often chaotic; but it is a city with a soul. The picture shows a street packed with vehicles stuck in traffic, including the city’s iconic yellow taxi and a city bus, with the routes written in the local language Bengali. – Kolkata, India

Puxin Shi

Puxin Shi — Chinese classics. – Taiyuan, China

Weiqian Wang

Weiqian Wang — This photo was taken from a window at my old apartment in China. I lived on the 16th floor, and I always liked the view when I looked out from the window. I took that panoramic photo at dusk. The sky was red and clean, and the city looked so beautiful. – Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Caroline Jager

Caroline Jager — Sunrise in my hometown in the Alps – home is where the mountains are! – Inzing, Austria

Yanina Prystauka

Yanina Prystauka — Beneath the Roof of Minsk – the European capital outside the European Union. – Minsk, Belarus

Xinyi Tang

Xinyi Tang — It’s the machine for pumping oil, and my city is famous for oilfield. – Daqing, China

Bingyang Zhang

Bingyang Zhang — A child of grace and happiness, at peace with her surroundings. – Harbin, China

Yuxuan Li

Yuxuan Li — This is a kind of famous local food in my hometown. – Jinan, China

Tilun Wang

Tilun Wang — A beautiful summer day with my favourite person. – Shanghai, China

Nicholas May

Nicholas May — Rafting on Yulong River. – Guilin, China

Anam Qureshi

Anam Qureshi — It shows the culture and beauty of Saudi Arabia through my eyes. – Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Yu Fu

Yu Fu — Looking at the factory shaky and unsteady, the grass growing with no worries, and the rainbow appearing suddenly, I couldn’t help but press the shutter, as if I had captured a new beginning. – Zhengding County, China

Huyun Lu

Huyun Lu — Suzhou ancient style garden. – Suzhou, China

Hao Gong

Hao Gong — This photo was taken in the old city of Jerusalem when I was a Kibbutz volunteers in Israel. Israel is the second homeland for me. – Jerusalem, Israel

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