Getty Images Awards Grants To Photographers

Every year, Getty Images awards five photographers individual grants of $20,000 each, for a total of $100,000.

Grant recipients are given the opportunity to sign a one-year exclusive-rights deal with Getty Images whereby their work could be marketed and available for license to customers worldwide through gettyimages.com, while retaining copyright of their imagery.

In September 2007, Getty Images awarded grants to Jonathan Lowenstein, Leo Maguire and Jonathan Torgovnik.

Lowenstein's grant will allow him to continue his project "Shadow Lives USA," about immigrants in the U.S. from Mexico and Central America. Maguire applied for a grant for a project about Gypsy bare-knuckle fighters in England called "Lords of the Lane". Torgovnik intends to use his grant to continue his project about the children of women who were raped in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, "Intended Consequences".

Getty says it received 124 applications for the latest grant.

Applications for grants to be awarded in September 2008 must be postmarked by May 15, 2008.

Information about how to apply is online at: http://corporate.gettyimages.com/marketing/grants_editorial/overview.asp