We want to thank everyone who participated in the Reality Tours Photo Contest. We were thrilled by the outpouring of response to this contest and had a very difficult time selecting the winner; there were many excellent photos to choose from. We have posted below just a few of the top entries to the contest.
The winner of this year's contest is Stephen Kerpen of Los Ojos, New Mexico, whose photo of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem holding olive tree branches touched our hearts.
If you did not have a chance to send us your photos but were interested in doing so, please consider entering next year's photo contest! We have decided to make this an annual contest with winners selected each April. More information about that can be found at www.globalexchange.org/tours/PhotoCon.html
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 1st Place: Palestinian children in East Jerusalem
by Stephen Kerpen, 2004 |  2nd Place: the largest urban garden in Havana, Cuba
by Lisa Hamilton, 2003 |
 3rd Place: Reality Tour participant with Iranian schoolchildren
by Lynn Guenther, 2005 |  4th Place: South African women dancing the toi-toi at a women's rally
by Nancy Thompson, 2003 |
 5th Place: Maasai men in Tanzania
by Rachel Friedland, 2005 |  6th Place: Soldier and orthodox Israelis at the Western Wall, Jerusalem
by Stephen Kerpen, 2004 |
7th Place: an Afghan orphan
by Connie Frisbee, 2003 |
