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Photo 2009 Getty Images Grants Fund

28 Jan

Article Source: www.q60.org

Getty Images announced in March this year was the first photographer Editorial Photography Foundation list of two photographers from Magnum's Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli were given 20,000 U.S. dollars prize money to complete the shooting of their respective projects, in addition, two photography students Andy Spyra and Maximiliano Braun also won the 5000 U.S. dollars funding projects for their photographic coverage.

This year's judges, including Time's chief picture editor Alice Gabriner, Aperture magazine editor Melissa Harris and the Magnum Photo Agency, Susan Meiselas, a total of more than 215 professional photographers to submit their applications, the following is funded projects, the Introduction and previous works are:

photographers: Paolo Pellegrin
film project:" Iraqi refugees" , there are at least 2 million Iraqi refugees in exile in Jordan, Syria and other countries, these refugees because the U.S. invasion of displacement caused by war, there is no hope of returning to their homes, always living in uncertainty, at the same time, Western countries provide scant refuge, this project will further record of these were long ignored by international news groups.

Photographer: Alex Majoli
film project:" samba's Requiem" , the 2003 film" City of God" will focus people's attention to Brazil's slums serious issue of gun violence in this country, buy a guns only 18 U.S. dollars each year from 40,000 to 6 million people were killed, there are 800 slums in Rio de Janeiro alone, about 60 million people living with HIV virus, Alex Majoli dangerous and arduous process of filming, the photographer told us ," what is happening here must be recorded, and let the world know: the price of a gun is equivalent to killing a human life."

Photographer: Andy Spyra
film project:" Kashmir dispute" , in the Getty's funding Next, Andy Spyra will further explore the military control of the native culture, religion and the impact of everyday life, and the people in dispute to the war zone and extend health way of life. Spyra 1984 was born in Germany, Hagen, is near a recently graduated freelance photographer.

Photographer: Maximiliano Braun
film project:" and with me," This is a photo taken in South African hospitals project, recorded in a vegetative state due to brain injury patients and their family life," each days, they are likely to wake up, the problem is, nobody knows what day it is ... I hope these photos can help their relatives, hoping to give them the confidence to continue."