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February 2012
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UWI through students’ eyes
So when the judges (Mark Lyndersay, Photographer; Professor Emeritus Julian Duncan, Botany; and Amilcar Sanatan, Guild President) declared him, Avinash Phagoo, winner of the first prize of a UWI Bookshop voucher worth $1000 and an all-expense paid trip for four to the Asa Wright Centre, he was thrilled. Nerissa Ramesar, whose photo of the tree outside the Sir Frank Stockdale Building, won her the second place prize of a Bookshop voucher for $500, was so inspired by the competition itself that she enrolled in an advanced photography course at the UWI Open Campus. Winner of the third-place hamper, Donovan Jordan is a member of the UWI Photography Club. There were 58 submissions and lots of feedback on the UWI St. Augustine’s Facebook page, where they were posted; many asking when the next competition begins.
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Every Sunday evening, Avinash would leave his home in the southland and come up to The UWI St. Augustine Campus, trying to find the perfect moment to take a photograph to enter in the ‘UWI at Twilight’ Category. Ever since the Film Production student found out about the Environmental Committee’s Photography Competition, “Capturing UWI’s Green,” that had become his fixation. 