An image from Liz Hingley's series on the Jones family. Follow the link at the end of the story for the full image and series
Copyright: Liz Hingley/Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography recipientLiz Hingley, who is currently studying for an MSc in Social Anthropology at University College London, will use the grant to fund her documentary project "The Jones Family", which will share and document the life of a family of nine living in a council house in Wolverhampton.
On the Getty Images' grant website Hingley adds that the funding will allow her "to bring to light and illustrate the fundamental realities of the intergenerational cycle of poverty in the developed world".
Each year Getty offers Grants for Editorial Photography, to provide journalists with funding to pursue particular projects "of personal and journalistic significance". This years contest received over 400 applications.
Getty announced the winners of its seventh annual grants program at the Visa pour l'Image photography festival in Perpignan yesterday.
The other four recipients of the grants, which will total $100,000, were Alvaro Ybarra Zavala with his project "Columbia, In the Eternity of Sorrow", Walter Astrada with "Violence Against Women", Stanley Greene with "The E-Waste Trail" and Joan Bardeletti with "The Kill (African Gays) Bill in Uganda".
There are more details about all the grant-winning projects on the Getty Images grant website.
In a statement Aidan Sullivan, vice president of photo assignments at Getty Images said the judging panel were "delighted with the winners selected".
"This year’s projects deal with a range of compelling and complex issues, such as civil war in Colombia and poverty in the United Kingdom."
See a full slideshow of Hingley's Jones family series on the Getty website at this link.
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