2025 Winners

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2025 Global Focus Winners

Congratulations to the 2025 Global Focus photo contest winners! Thanks to all of the entrants for inspiring international engagement through the power of their photography.

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Students

First Place: Mohammad Rajaian Hoonejani
Music in the Ceiling
Isfahana, Iran

Second Place: Grace Tukurah
Grandpa's zebus
Kafanchan, Nigeria

Third Place: Jorge Millian
A Night in Kyoto
Yamato-bashi Bridge, Kyoto, Japan

 

People's Choice: Aanchal Gupta
Faith Amid the Chaos
Boudhanath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal

 

  


Faculty & Staff

First Place: Syed Haider
Panning Through Time
Vienna, Austria

Second Place: Sheila Babbitt
Mocko Jumbie
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Third Place: Soksamphoas Im
Life in the Floating village on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

 

People's Choice: Mikala Rioux
Sea Aster on the Ring of Kerry
Ballyreen, Ireland

Global Spartan Pride: Jennifer Olson
On Safari!
Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

 

 

 


Alumni

First Place: Tanya Iretskaya
Nomadic Nenets way of life - day of rest at the chum
Yamal Peninsula, remote North of Russia

Second Place: Don Green
Sea of Red, Sea of People
YuYuan Tourist Mart, Shanghai, China

Third Place: Shae Eckles
Talking to the Walls
Qutuv Minar, India

 

People's Choice & Best Story Behind the Photo: Brian Bielecki
The Old King of the Mole
Mole National Park, Ghana