Giap Do Wins Award in Wes in the World Photo Contest

2017 Dec 1

In November, Giap Do was among the winners of the Wesleyan Fries Center for Global Studies' 2017-18 Wes in the World Photo Contest.

More than 200 Wesleyan students, staff, faculty and alumni voted on 56 images in five different categories, including landscape, people, contemporary issues, daily life and sports. Photographs were submitted by international students and U.S. students who studied abroad.

Do's photo, "5 + 1," taken in Beijing, China, won in the category Best Photo of Sports.

“I took this picture one Thursday night at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. After the 2008 Olympics, the compound became a multipurpose tourist attraction: foreigners and Chinese alike come to see the world-famous structures, dine, shop, and exercise. Out of all the pictures I took that night, this one of a blurry teenage girl tugs at something in me,” he said. “There is something so daring, so cool about the rebel in pink skateboarding against the five ladies in Olympic colors, something that makes me hope for the future of China.”