Isabel Steckel Wins Award in Wes in the World Photo Contest

2017 Dec 1

In November, Isabel Steckel 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.

Steckel's photo, titled, "Aida," taken in Bethlehem, Palestine, was named the Best Photo of Daily Life.

“A little girl in yellow look[ed] back and smile[d] at me before entering her family’s house at the Aida Refugee Camp—home to more than 5,500 Palestinian refugees—in the central West Bank,” Steckel said.