Getty Images Offers Grants to Instagram Users

Getty Images is allowing users of the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network to apply for grants to support their efforts “to document stories from underrepresented communities around the world,” with entrants required to include biographies, brief descriptions of their approaches and styles, stories they have covered and how they would benefit.

The two companies said entries will be judged on existing bodies of work on Instagram, with a focus on quality, photographic skills and the project and stories told through their photos, and the judges are:

• Time director of photography and visual enterprise Kira Pollack (@kirapollack)
• Documentary photographer Malin Fezehai (@malinfezehai)
• Documentary photographer Maggie Steber (@maggiesteber)
• Photojournalist and National Geographic photography fellow David Guttenfelder (@dguttenfelder)
• Documentary photographer and @EverydayIran co-founder Ramin Talaie (@ramintalaie)

Instagram director of community Amanda Kelso said in a release announcing the grants:

We are inspired every day by the work...