Welcome to our visual blog for the BUPS/BIS 2009 8th grade Ephesus trip. These photographs, captions and "unphotographs" represent a joint venture in English and art class capturing the experience of the students' final middle school trip at BUPS/BIS. Many still remember and speak fondly of the games at Patalya in 6th grade and the adventures in Cappadocia last year in 7th. This year's experience held the same kind of wonder and memories, all the more poignant since in just a little time they will graduate from the 8th grade. The students have chosen their best landscape, portrait and detail photograph, writing a concise and descriptive caption for one. Using Michael David Murphy's "Unphotographable" as an inspiration, the students also wrought an image in words when its meaning went beyond the pixel.

Even though they will be in the same building next year and have many of the same teachers, high school is a different world. Every assignment and class trip of middle school has been constructed to help the students succeed in this new realm. But, as you will see from the photos of Ephesus and its surrounding areas and as the students realized, the past is never far away, and it's always the foundation for the future.

Saturday

Laila Tara Hossaini


A fiery poppy standing tall and proud in front of the ancient library that was once full of life and stories, abandoned and re-found. The Library that is now only walls and pillars, empty inside except for the shutters of tourists’ camera lenses, hoping to catch a feeling of the greatness that used to be. The irony of the poppy that represents wealth and success with the library that was full of both those representations. The contrast of the silky solf and smooth poppy with the delicately rough, carved out designs of the building.


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