Five Photojournalists Win Getty Images' Latest Grants: "Five photojournalists from different parts of the world have each been awarded $20,000 from Getty Images annual Grants for Editorial Photography program to continue working on their respective photo projects.
This year's winners are: Stefano De Luigi of Italy for “TIA – This is Africa”; Miquel Dewever-Plana of France for “The Other War”; Edwin Koo of Singapore for “Paradise Lost: Pakistan’s Swat Valley”; Darcy Padilla of San Francisco, for “The Julie Project”; and Jerome Sessini of France, for “So Far from God, Too Close to America.”
The judging panel— which included The New York Times director of photography Kathy Ryan; SVA's photography department chair Stephen Frailey; photojournalist Eugene Richards; director general of Visa pour l’Image Jean-Francois Leroy; and senior photo editor Jamie Wellford of Newsweek—had to make their selections from 260 applications and proposals from professional photojournalists, as well as from 48 student proposals.
The four student winners, all of whom are studying photojournalism in the United States, will each receive $5,000 from Getty. They are: Bryan Anselm of Western Kentucky University; Julie Glassberg of the International Center of Photography in New York City; Julia Marie Rendleman of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; andParis Visone of The Art Institute of Boston.
Getty Images' Grants for Editorial Photography program was established in 2005 to enable emerging and established photojournalists to pursue projects of personal and editorial merit.
More information, as well galleries of the winning portfolios, can be found at www.gettyimages.com/grants."
This year's winners are: Stefano De Luigi of Italy for “TIA – This is Africa”; Miquel Dewever-Plana of France for “The Other War”; Edwin Koo of Singapore for “Paradise Lost: Pakistan’s Swat Valley”; Darcy Padilla of San Francisco, for “The Julie Project”; and Jerome Sessini of France, for “So Far from God, Too Close to America.”
The judging panel— which included The New York Times director of photography Kathy Ryan; SVA's photography department chair Stephen Frailey; photojournalist Eugene Richards; director general of Visa pour l’Image Jean-Francois Leroy; and senior photo editor Jamie Wellford of Newsweek—had to make their selections from 260 applications and proposals from professional photojournalists, as well as from 48 student proposals.
The four student winners, all of whom are studying photojournalism in the United States, will each receive $5,000 from Getty. They are: Bryan Anselm of Western Kentucky University; Julie Glassberg of the International Center of Photography in New York City; Julia Marie Rendleman of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; andParis Visone of The Art Institute of Boston.
Getty Images' Grants for Editorial Photography program was established in 2005 to enable emerging and established photojournalists to pursue projects of personal and editorial merit.
More information, as well galleries of the winning portfolios, can be found at www.gettyimages.com/grants."
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