Getty Images Offering $130,000 Grants to Editorial & Portrait Photographers
We have mentioned this previously, see here, but just as a reminder, photographers have until 15 May to submit their work for a chance to win one of this year’s Getty Images Grants.
This year, as it celebrates the programme’s 10-year anniversary, Getty Images will be offering six Editorial photography prizes, three Creative Grants for non-profit organisations and photographers, and one Portrait award – totalling $130,000 in cash prizes.
In the Grants for Editorial Photography category, Getty Images will present five $10,000 prizes, which will be awarded to photojournalists pursuing personal projects of journalistic significance. An additional grant, offered in partnership with the Lean In foundation, will be “awarded to a photographer whose project is focused on an important but under-told story about women or girls achieving positive results in their communities or personal lives”.
The winners will be selected by a panel of jurors that include David Furst, the international picture editor at The New York Times; Facebook’s photo community manager Teru Kuwayama; Sarah Leen, director of photography at National Geographic magazine; Amy Yenkin of the Open Society Foundations; and Jean-François Leroy of the Visa pour l’Image festival.
For Sullivan, the grants offer a reprieve for photographers struggling to find backing for their work. ”In these difficult financial times, where it has become something of a rarity to obtain funding from traditional sources, this grant offers something of a lifeline.”
In the Creative Grants programme, Getty Images will distribute two $20,000 prizes, which will each be shared between a photographer or filmmaker and an agency partner as “they work together to create compelling new imagery and/or video for the non-profit of their choice.” A third grant will also be awarded to a photographer and agency whose “joint proposal is to develop imagery for a non-profit that focuses on issues related to empowering women, girls, their families and communities.”
Finally, Getty Images is also organising the second edition of its Contour by Getty Images Portrait Prize, offering $10,000 to a photographer with fewer than five years of experience in portraiture work. The jury will include photographer Terry O’Neill, Telegraph Magazine’s director of photography Cheryl Newman, designer Stuart Smith, and Michael Hirschl of the BergHind Joseph Agency.
To submit your work and to find out more, go here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
