SEE THE WINNERS OF GETTY IMAGES’ INAUGURAL INSTAGRAM GRANT

This morning Getty Images and Instagram announced Ismail Ferdous, Adriana Zehbrauskas and Dmitry Markov as the three talented photographers to be awarded the first ever Getty Images Instagram Grant. Each of these photographers will receive a $10,000 grant, mentorhship from a Getty photojournalist and have their work shown at Photoville, which opens this afternoon in New York City.

Established earlier this year, the Getty Images Instagram Grant received over 1,200 entires from photographers working in 109 countries. Entrants were evaluated based on the existing bodies of work featured on their accounts with judges looking at the quality of images, photographic technique and, of course, storytelling ability.

Bangladesh-based Ismail Ferdous received a grant for his project called After Rana Plaza, which focuses on the stories of the surviving relatives of individuals who were killed in the collapse of Rana Plaza garment factory.

Adriana Zehbrauskas is a Brazilian photographer currently based in Mexico City who is part of the Instagram collective @everydayclimatechange. She has been documenting everyday life in Mexico City through her account and plans to use the grant money to fund a project called Next of Kin: Family Matters, which will involve shooting formal portraits of the families of the 43 students who went missing last year from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers School

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http://www.americanphotomag.com/getty-images-announces-winners-inaugural-instagram-grant

‘After Rana Plaza’ Gives Instagram a Fresh Perspective on the 2013 Tragedy

In April 2013 the Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring nearly 3,000 more. Though the disaster focused the world’s attention on the dangerous working conditions widely prevalent in the fashion industry, it was one of the worst industrial disasters in history and hardly the type of catalyst for change that those making our clothes for a meager wage had hoped for.

Images of bodies being removed from rubble, survivors—many missing limbs—being pulled from the wreckage, and the families of victims devastated by the loss of their loved ones flooded media outlets. The politically connected owner of the factory had illegally added two floors to the top of the building, filling them with manufacturing equipment, to rent more space to Western brands and ignored reports the previous day of cracks in the structure, forcing workers to return to their posts.

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http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/08/23/after-rana-plaza-instagram