Penn IUR Photo Contest Winners |
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March 15, 2016, Volume 62, No. 26 |
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Winning Photo: “Summer’s Day at John Kelly Pool, Fairmount Park, Pa.” by Ben Chrisinger |
The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), in collaboration with the Center for Public Health Initiatives, announced the winner of its photo contest on the theme of Public Health and the Urban Environmental Landscape.
The winning photo, “Summer’s Day at John Kelly Pool, Fairmount Park, Pa.” (above), taken by Ben Chrisinger, a Penn IUR Emerging Scholar who completed his PhD in city & regional planning at PennDesign in 2015, is a nostalgic-feeling image that depicts the recreational and community-building benefits of urban public pools.
The two runners up were Rob Lybeck’s “Schuylkill River Trail,” a moody and arresting shot depicting a runner on the trail, and “Spruce Street Harbor Park, Philadelphia,” a vibrant image of toddlers enjoying the waterfront pop-up parks by Teng Teng, who earned his master’s in city & regional planning at PennDesign in 2015.
Three additional submissions received honorable mentions: “Pedestrian Traffic, Italian Market, Philadelphia” by Alexandra Atiyeh; “Natural, Human, and Industrial Landscape, Philadelphia,” by Caroline Carney, C’12, a clinical research coordinator in the division of health policy at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine; and “Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France” by Javier Medina.
The winner and runners up were announced at the “Shaping the Urban Health and Environmental Landscape” symposium, held last month in the Fisher Fine Arts Library at Penn. The contest was judged by the symposium’s panel of experts, who looked for compelling images that emphasize ways that urban design has succeeded or failed to promote public health and well-being.
To see the runners up and honorable mentions, visit http://penniur.upenn.edu/press-room/announcements/view-the-winners-urban-health-and-the-environmental-landscape-photo-contest
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Runner Up: “Schuylkill River Trail” by Rob Lybeck |
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Runner Up: “Spruce Street Harbor Park, Philadelphia, by Teng Teng |
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Honorable Mention: “Pedestrian Traffic, Italian Market, Philadelphia” by Alexandra Atiyeh |
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Honorable Mention: “Natural, Human, and Industrial Landscape, Philadelphia” by Caroline Carney |
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Honorable Mention: “Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France” by Javier Medina |
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