Anna Herforth

"Market Bundle" by Anna Herforth (nutritional sciences), picturing a little boy on his mother's back in an outdoor produce market in Arusha, Tanzania, took first prize.

Laura K. Cramer

"Dairy Goat Brings Smiles" by Laura K. Cramer (international agriculture and rural development), showing a woman who had received a dairy goat from Heifer International in Kenya, was the second-prize winner.

A major produce market in Tanzania. A goat from Heifer International supporting a family in Kenya. A woman sorting grains in Jharkhand, India.

Each of these settings was the subject of a winning photo in Cornell's annual photo contest sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies for graduate students who conduct research in far corners of the world.

By coordinating with its affiliated programs, the center funds more than 150 graduate students' international research projects each year and asks the students to bring home photographs that capture the diversity and beauty of their destinations and illustrate their research.

This year, 58 photographs were submitted for the photo contest from 21 graduate students from fields as diverse as public affairs, anthropology and city and regional planning to crop and soil sciences, nutritional sciences and veterinary medicine and from countries as diverse as Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Russia and Venezuela.

The winning photograph, taken by Anna Herforth, a graduate student in nutritional sciences, shows an outdoor produce market in Tanzania, where Herforth interviewed traders about the vegetables they were selling.

Second place went to Laura K. Cramer, a graduate student in international agriculture and rural development who went to Kenya to evaluate a nutrition and agriculture development project in Nakuru. The dairy goat not only provides milk for the Kenyan family but income -- the dairy goat's male offspring will be sold; female offspring will go to family members.

The third-place photo, taken by nutrition graduate student Andrew Jones, shows a woman he interviewed for a household survey and documentary film on nutrition interventions and discrimination in rural villages of Jharkhand, India.

The winning images and the nine honorable mentions will be displayed in Uris Hall and the Big Red Barn during the spring semester. The next competition deadline is Oct. 13, 2008.