Welcome to Harvard College's annual International Photo Contest! Since 2004, undergraduates at Harvard College have submitted photographs documenting their travels around the globe.

See the collection of the prize-winning pictures of the past eight years online.

Announcement:
All current Harvard students who have studied, worked, interned, or done research abroad are encouraged to submit their best photos in the following four categories:

     1. Landscape/Nature
     2. Sense of Place/Culture
     3. People
     4. Architecture

Deadline for submission of photos is October 1, 2012.

Click here to submit an entry. Each student may compete in up to 2 categories (one photograph per category).

Photos will be judged by Deborah Martin-Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography of the Fogg Art Museum,
Acting Head, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Chief Curator
A specialist in mid-twentieth-century American art, Martin-Kao has organized exhibitions, lectured, and published on a wide array of topics. She is co-author of the award-winning exhibition catalogue Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times (Yale Press: 2000), and Gary Schneider: Portraits (Yale Press: 2004).

Reception
The International Photo Contest reception - during which photo contest winners will be announced - will be held during International Education Week, November 12-16, 2012.

Prizes to be awarded include:

• Best in Show
• 1st prize in each category
• 2nd prize in each category
• 3rd prize in each category
• Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Prize
• Korea Institute Prize
• DRCLAS Prize
• Harvard Summer School Prize
• Center for European Studies Prize
• South Asia Initiative Prize
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies Prize
• Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Prize
• Office of Career Services Prize
• Center for Hellenic Studies Prize
• Harvard China Fund Prize
• Let's Go Prize
• Committee on African Studies Prize
• Asia Center Prize