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By Adrien Stoloff
Campus Reporter
The Office of International Affairs held a ceremony to announce the winners for the 2008 NTNU Photo Contest for international students on Dec. 5. The winning photos were selected from over 200 finalist photos by a panel of three judges (comprised of a professor of graphic arts, a professor from the department of fine art, and the instructor of the photography club).
Jin Yang, a Korean student and the first-prize winner from the ‘my impression of NTNU’ category, had a conversation with campus reporter Adrien Stoloff regarding his work.
Campus Reporter: First of all, could you tell us where you are from and how long you have been at NTNU? And what book are you studying right now?
Jin Yang: I’m from Korea. I’ve been here about one year and four months, and I’m currently studying the Audio-Visual Chinese book four.
Campus Reporter: When and where was the event where you took this photo?
Jin Yang: It was around February or March of this year in the kitchen on the seventh floor of the Bo-Ai building. It was right around the time of our end-of-quarter exams. My Chinese class held a cooking event to exchange recipes from different countries. All in all, about twenty people showed up.
Campus Reporter: The subject of the competition was ‘my impression of NTNU’. Why did you choose to submit this picture?
Jin Yang: It was a unique moment. There are a lot of exchange students at NTNU, and in coming here we end up having many cultural exchanges. For example, in the photo I took, we were learning how to make the American [tex-mex] recipe, chili. I thought this photo was characteristic of a sincere cultural exchange.
Campus Reporter: That’s interesting because many people who submitted photos decided to show pictures of architecture and what not. You chose students. Are you very interested in photography?
Jin Yang: Yes, I really enjoy taking photos. But this photo was actually not even taken with my camera. I was just there at the moment and borrowed a friend’s camera to take it.
Campus Reporter: So were you surprised to win this contest from a picture which was taken so spontaneously?
Jin Yang: (laughs) A little, yes!
