Lynsey Addario, David Gillanders and Eugene Richards have won three of the five $20,000 grants awarded by Getty Images annually. As the company’s editorial-grant program celebrates its fifth year, winning projects continue to focus on the pressing political and social issues of the day.
Addario’s “Darfur” examines the ongoing conflict in Sudan, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced over 2 million people. The Istanbul-based photographer has been working on the project since 2004.
Gillanders will use the Getty Images grant to document violent knife crime, the legacy of the Scottish clan system, in his native Glasgow. Violent crime in the city has become so commonplace that it earned Glasgow the title of the Murder Capital of Europe. V
Richards’ “War is Personal” is a series of photos and essays, depicting the lives of U.S. people affected by the Iraq War. The Magnum-represented photographer has completed eight essays and will use the funding from Getty to work on seven more.
The three winners were selected from 153 applicants by a judging panel that included Monica Allende, picture editor of London’s Sunday Times Magazine, Ruth Eichhorn, director of photography at Germany’s GEO Magazine, Visa pour l’Image director general Jean-Francois Leroy and Getty’s own award-winning photojournalist Tom Stoddard.
Getty Images has also confirmed that five grants will be awarded to professional photojournalists in 2009. The company has also expanded the program to include a student category. Four $5,000 grants will be made to students under 30, enrolled in full-time accredited photojournalism courses.