Stock photography agency Getty Images, alongside Instagram, announces the winners of their first-ever Getty Images Instagram Grant: Ismail Ferdous, Adriana Zehbrauskas, and Dmitry Markov. The grant program was announced in May as a way to highlight photographers who use Instagram to document the lives of people who live in underrepresented communities around the world.Recipient Ismail Ferdous is a Bangladeshi documentary photographer who uses Instagram to cover humanitarian issues, and won the award for his project, After Rana Plaza. It is a body of work that captures the surviving relatives of those killed in the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory.
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Ismail Ferdous
Adriana Zehbrauskas was awarded the grant for her Instagram account that highlights topics such as climate change, and documents the everyday life of Latin Americans. She will use the grant to fund her project Next of Kin: Family Matters—a portrait series that will document the families of the 43 students who went missing from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers School last year.
Adriana Zehbrauskas
Dmitry Markov, who often documents the lives of orphaned children in Russia, will use the award to continue to shine a light on children suffering as a way to encourage society to act.
Dmitry Markov
The three recipients were selected from more than 1,200 entries from photographers representing 109 countries. Getty Images picked the winners based on the respective bodies of work each photographer shared on Instagram. Along with the grant of $10,000, the three recipients will also be mentored by one of Getty Images’ award-winning photojournalists, whose ranks include John Moore, Chris McGrath, and Andrew Burton. The award winners’ work will also be exhibited at Photoville apart of the Instagram exhibition, Curioser and Curioser: Down the Rabbit Hole with the Instagram Community. In addition to the three grant recipients; Getty Images are also offering mentorships to five additional photographers.
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