Description:
"While catching a taxi to meet our train, the cabdriver had to stop and make an offering at the Temple of Ma."

Title: "Goodbye"
Location:  Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands), Panama
Submitted by Byers Shaw
Category: Faculty/Staff

Description:
"Village people bid our group goodbye after a brief visit to their small island."

Description:
"I took this photo during a Sudanese refugee church service. I have been studying the Sudanese refugee population and the mental health issues within this population. This photograph displays Sudanese men praying. The colorful blankets displayed in front of them are quilts that the members of the church make and send to the refugee camps. One of the refugees remembered seeing blankets such as these in the refugee camp that she stayed in before entering the U.S."

Description:
"Music is the most universal means of expression of humanity. A Croatian ethnic band is performing music on interesting instru-ments. Many ethnic groups mix in Middle Europe. For example, German, Croatian, Slovakian, and Romanian ethnicities live peacefully in Hungary enjoying each other’s music."

Description:
"We were sitting on the beach under a palona and just looking out into the bay. As we watched, the sun began to set and the sail boat came into view. I wondered how beautiful the sunset would be on board the vessel and how the city looked from the bay with the sun at your back. It then struck me how funny it was that a beach so named from a deadly battle between gold and silver smugglers (“The Beach of the Dead”) could have such a gorgeous sunset."

Description:
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

Description:
"This photo shows people taking a bath in the holy waters of Ganges, and praying to God Sun. The photo also shows a temple of the Goddess Ganges, a sky-touching statue of lord Shiva, the God of renunciation, and a mighty bridge, representing mixing of faith and technology. The Ganges is associated in myth and reality with the land and people of India."

Description:
"This photo was taken in the Zen Garden in Kildare, Ireland. I keep it on my desk as a place of focus. It reminds me of the way two cultures mixed to make a peaceful entity, especially in a country that has known a lot of violence in its past."

Description:
"I saw this elephant standing on the road in my town. Elephants on streets are not uncommon in India and this mammal lives peacefully with men even in such an urban place. This is quite evident from the man (in jeans) who is standing boldly with his back facing the elephant."

Description:
"Dance, joy. Dance is a universal language, no matter if it's Hungarian folkdancing, or Latin American Samba or African dance; it is important in the culture of different nations. A few more steps toward peace."

Description:
"I took this photo during a Sudanese refugee church service. I have been studying the Sudanese refugee population and the mental health issues within this population. Most Sudanese women have 5-6 children or more. I chose to photograph this woman because of the traditional colorful clothing that her and her son displayed. The clothing represents the struggle for all refugees to maintain the traditional culture, while learning a new one. Many Sudanese refugee women suffer from depression, which is associated with the stress of relocation and role changes."

Description:
"This home visit with a Brazilian medical team was to assess children who had been followed for malnourishment. The children were wary, and at the same time fascinated by their visitors. With the assistance of commodities delivered by this medical team, the children are maintaining normal growth and development."

Description:
"The only way to reach the Isla del Sol is by boat. This island in Lake Titicaca is believed to be the Incan birthplace. This young girl demonstrates one form of transportation on the rocky terrain, the llama."

Description:
"This photograph was taken while traveling along the countryside in India. In this picture, farmers are trying to contain the fire spreading across their fields."

Description:
"While our patients wait to be seen, they often watch videos in a side room of the clinic. The Jesus Film is quite possibly the only movie translated into the local Quechva dialect, so waiting patients jockey for position to see the movie."

Description:
"In the capital city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the comforts of Western Civilization are absent, but the spirit of laboring for family is not. Here I encountered a young girl helping her mother, both barefoot, as they toted the burden of palm leaves to their home. The leaves and grass will strengthen the mud brick walls, and be woven into baskets within which to put a meal."

Description:
"It is possible to be lonely but not alone. This picture reflects sensuality, pudor, understanding, fragility, strength, and confidence."

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"The photo shows my daughter teasing her baby brother. Although she was just two years old, she was acting like an adult and able to tease her baby brother in a nice way. I felt very happy as I snuck in and found her doing that and that her teasing did not upset her brother—instead, he appeared to be enjoying it!"

Description:
"I was gazing at a busy colony of hermit crabs on a sandy beach in Costa Rica when a very neatly dressed boy strolled past on his way home from school. He spoke no English and I spoke no Spanish. He seemed to want me to know that these interesting little creatures are safe to hold for a closer look."

Description:
"This picture was taken at Touch of Nature Camping Park where the Gibbs Conference was held. I was astonished by the beautiful colors of the leaves in the forest."

Description:
"Most Americans would list “A prison in a third-world country” high for places they wouldn’t want to be. The local district attorney asked me to help run a chess tournament which you see here. We had one female inmate and eleven males." 

Title: "Lake Atitlan"
Location: Guatemala 
Submitted by Joshua Black
Category: Student/Resident 

Description:
"Here an elderly Haitian man braces for a “picki,” an injection of an anti-inflammatory to ease his arthritic pain. This picture is important to me because although I was born in the Bahamas of Haitian parents, I had never actually visited Haiti. Working in a rural Haitian clinic this summer gave me the opportunity to not only use my newly acquired nursing skills, but I also gained new unique insights into the land and culture of my family’s origin."

Title: "Las Tortillas"
Location: Rancho Palma Real, Mexico 
Submitted by Michael Sather
Category: Student/Resident 

Description:
"This friendly mexicana was working away making homemade tortillas from scratch. We were taking a break for lunch from horseback riding in the Sierra Madre. She was making these tortillas for our fajitas. It was amazing to see the process of crushing the maiz to make a paste and then baking the tortillas. It was amazing to see the human work and effort that went into a process that we either think nothing about, or see as simplistic and take for granted. It made me appreciate my lunch."

Description:
"I saw this villager reading a local newspaper when I went to India last year. His concentration, curiosity and the place where he chose to read (a shaded alley) immediately caught my attention."

Title: "A Refugee's Testimony"
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church 
Submitted by Jodi Hume
Category: Student/Resident 

Description:
"I took this photo during a Sudanese refugee church service. I have been studying the Sudanese refugee population and the mental health issues within this population. This photograph displays a Sudanese man giving a testimony in front of the congregation regarding his experiences in Sudan and the circumstances that caused him to flee. The man became very emotional and had to wipe the tears streaming down his face with the cloth he is holding in his left hand. Even though I couldn’t understand what he was saying, since he was speaking Arabic, I could understand the passion behind his story."

Description:
"Unique view of a famous landmark."