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Getty Images Announces Winners of Photography Grants

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PERPIGNAN, France â€" Eugene Richards received his second Getty Images Grant for editorial photography Thursday evening at the Visa Pour l’Image photography festival. The grant will allow him to expand his project, “War Is Personal,” about Iraq war veterans returning to the United States. His earlier work, which resulted in a book, was partially funded by his first Getty Images Grant in 2008.

Mr. Richards has published 16 books including “Dorchester Days,” a personal view of the working-class neighborhood where he grew up in Boston, “Exploding Into Life,” which followed his first wife, Dorothea Lynch, and her struggle with breast cancer, and “Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue,” on the ravages of drug abuse.

The Getty Images Grant for editorial photography was established in 2005 to support photojournalists working on personal projects and documenting important, but underreported stories. Each photographer will receive $10,000.

The judges for this year’s awards were Jean-François Leroy, the director of Visa Pour l’Image, Olivier Laurent, acting deputy editor of the British Journal of Photography, Jon Jones, director of photography at The Sunday Times Magazine, Tiziana Faraoni, photo editor of l’Espresso and Fiona Rogers, founder of Firecracker, an online platform that supports European women photographers.

Samuel James won a grant for his project on the oil economy’s effects on the people of the Niger Delta (his photos were featured on Lens in February). Marco Gualazzini earned a grant for his photo essay on the M23 military faction in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Tomas van Houtryve also won a grant for his proposal for a story on the use of drones to target enemy combatants.

Matt Eich received a grant for his project on race in Greenwood, Miss., “Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town.” Mr. Eich, who was previously profiled on Lens, said the grant will allow him continue the work after some unexpected delays.

“It also a reminder to me to be patient,” he said in an interview on Thursday. “I’ve applied to this grant at least five different times.”

DESCRIPTIONMarco Gualazzini/LUZphoto M23 rebels prepared to march back to Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following orders to withdraw from a city they had occupied for nearly two weeks. 2012.

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