Getty Images recently bestowed $120,000 onto nine lucky winners of the company’s coveted editorial photography grants. In a separate announcement, the company revealed a new editorial imagery representation agreement with McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
Photojournalists who won $20,000 grants included Stefano De Luigi (for “TIA – This is Africa”), Miquel Dewever-Plana (for “The Other War,” which documents violence in Guatemala), Edwin Koo (for “Paradise Lost: Pakistan’s Swat Valley”), Darcy Padilla (for “The Julie Project,” a study of the intersections of welfare, poverty, family, AIDS and substance abuse), and Jerome Sessini (for “So far from God, too close to America,” which focuses on Mexico’s struggle with drug cartels).
Aspiring photographer-winners, each of whom received $5,000, included students of The Art Institute of Boston, the International Center of Photography, Southern Illinois University and Western Kentucky University.
Since 2004, Getty has awarded more than $600,000 through its editorial photography grants and the more recent Grants for Good programs. Galleries of work and further information on the programs and winners is available online.
The new McClatchy-Tribune deal follows an earlier exclusive agreement under which Getty manages MCT’s sports imagery. Now, Getty will also represent the daily output of MCT staff and contributing photographers, as well as an archive of some 250,000 images. On average, the MCT network—which includes news organizations such as The Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Kansas City Star, Charlotte Observer and Fort Worth Star-Telegram—produces more than 200 images per day, documenting national and global issues, sports and personalities.