Three Photojournalists win Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography

Program Expands to Celebrate Fifth Year
NEW YORK & PERPIGNAN, France--(Business Wire)--
Getty Images announced today that Lynsey Addario, David Gillanders
and Eugene Richards have been selected as the next three recipients of
the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography. Each recipient will
receive $20,000 and collaborative support from Getty Images photo
editors as they pursue their documentary photography projects.

Their portfolios were selected from a field of 153 applicants from
26 countries by a prestigious panel of judges including:

-- Monica Allende, picture editor of the Sunday Times Magazine,
London

-- Ruth Eichhorn, director of photography, GEO Magazine, Germany

-- Jean-Francois Leroy, director general, Visa Pour l'Image,
France

-- Tom Stoddart, photojournalist, Getty Images, UK

Lynsey Addario's project, "Darfur," will examine the ongoing
conflict in western Sudan, which began in early 2003 and has left an
estimated 200,000 dead from the resulting violence, sickness and
hunger while forcing approximately 2.5 million people from their
homes. Lynsey first photographed the situation in 2004 and since then
has returned to cover it for at least one month each year, commenting,
"As a photojournalist, I find it almost impossible to ignore the
conflict in Darfur, one of the greatest displays of ethnic cleansing
and spawning one of the gravest humanitarian crises of our time."
Lynsey plans to use her Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography
to continue this coverage, including one trip to Darfur and one to the
refugee camps in neighboring Chad. She is currently based in Istanbul,
Turkey.

David Gillanders' project "Glasgow," will focus on the culture of
violent knife crime - a legacy of the Scottish clan culture - which
has earned Scotland's largest city the title "Murder Capital of
Europe." David says, "As a native Glaswegian, I wanted to draw
attention to this phenomenon, which blights my city and ruins lives
each and every day. Barbaric, violent crime has become so commonplace
that it is almost an accepted way of life."

His previous work on this subject reveals the severity of the
problems that knife crime imposes on Glasgow. His grant project will
be to take a closer look at the lives of the families he has met who
are involved with knife culture. David believes that the end result
will be a strong profile of the modern Scottish clan system, and
concludes that, "The Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography will
provide me with a financial lifeline, ensuring my ability to continue
this project uninterrupted to completion."

Eugene Richards began work on "War is Personal" in 2006 as a
series of photo and text essays focused on the lives of people in the
US who'd been profoundly affected by the war in Iraq. Eugene's grant
will be used to move the project forward in the coming months. "Eight
photographic essays are now completed," he commented. "With the
assistance of a Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, I will
undertake at least seven more." At the completion of the project there
will be a book and a multimedia piece that interposes photographs with
personal writings and interviews to advance the dialogue on the Iraq
war. Based in New York, Eugene is a noted photojournalist, writer and
filmmaker who is represented by Magnum Photos.

Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography begins its fifth
year of commitment to photojournalists by affirming that five grants
totaling $100,000 will again be awarded to professional
photojournalists in 2009. In addition, Getty Images is expanding the
program by including a student category to identify and encourage
promising photojournalism students throughout the world. Four grants
of $5,000 each will be made to students under 30 who are enrolled in a
full-time, accredited photojournalism course.

More information about the grant winners, judges and the new
student category can be found at www.gettyimages.com/editorial-grants.

About Getty Images

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still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a
recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content,
including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than
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Getty Images, Seattle
Molly McWhinnie, 206-925-6054
molly.mcwhinnie@gettyimages.com
or
Getty Images, London
Alison Crombie, +44 207 424 8081
alison.crombie@gettyimages.com

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