Photo Contest - Boston Area Returned Peace Corps Volunteers

BARPCV 2025 Photos Contest now open

Enter your favorite 3 photos from your Peace Corps country of service. Bragging rights and a bit of prize money at stake! First Prize is $100; runner-up gets $50. Must be a BARPCV member to win.

DEADLINE: NOV 2, 2025. Email your JPEG to Photos Chair Phoebe at [email protected]

Play around with the download file quality so you send me the best JPEG possible. You could do a practice run on Nations Photo Lab (the company we use for our printing). Anything much smaller than a 12″ x 12″ print tends to get lost when displayed on Simon’s Coffee Shop wall. Beware the LOW RESOLUTION warning; they recommend a high-quality image that crops no lower than 125 dpi.
https://www.nationsphotolab.com/

Best of luck!

Questions?

Email us at [email protected]

Prior Year Photos

Congratulations to Chelsea Gaylord, last year’s contest winner!

In 2023, ten BARPCV members shared memories of their years of service by submitting 27 photos for our consideration. Years of service spanned from 1969 through 2020 and covered five continents. The board winnowed the field down to ten finalists. Those beautiful pictures were displayed during the month of December at Simon’s Coffee Shop in Cambridge for all to see and admire. Voting was online with 140 votes submitted. BARPCV general membership was sent a link to the contest but voting was also open to Simon’s customers. Prizes: $100 for first place, $50 for second place. Both winning photos were taken by Chelsea in Uganda 2015 – 2017.

First place: Bubbles Runner Up: Leader