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Getty Images Instagram Grant 2015
Meet the judges
Malin Fezehai (@malinfezehai)
Documentary Photographer
Malin Fezehai is an Eritrean/Swedish New York based
photographer and filmmaker, bouncing around the middleeast, Africa, Europe and America. Her career started in her
native country of Sweden, where she studied photography
before moving to New York to attend the International Center
of Photography.
Her work focuses on communities of displacement and
dislocation around the world. She’s filmed on the sinking
islands of Kiribati, photographed underage workers in Ethiopia,
and reported on the war torn lives of women in Sri Lanka. In
2014, her work on the African asylum seekers living life in
detention centers in Southern Israel was LightBox feature for
TIME magazine.
Malin has been the recipient of a 2015 World Press Photo
Award, the Wallis Annenberg Prize and was named one of the
30 Emerging Photographers to watch in 2015 by Photo District
News. Her image depicting a Wedding of Eritrean Refugees in
Israel was the first iPhone image to ever receive a World Press
Photo Award. Some of her clients include TIME, The New York
Times, The New Yorker, Fader Magazine, and Nike. She is also a
contributor to the @everydayUSA Instagram collective.
David Guttenfelder (@dguttenfelder)
Photojournalist and National Geographic Photography Fellow
David Guttenfelder is a photojournalist and National Geographic
Photography Fellow documenting geopolitics and conservation issues.
Previously he spent 20 years with the Associated Press based in Nairobi,
Abidjan, New Delhi, and Tokyo. In 2011 Guttenfelder helped the AP open a
bureau in North Korea, the first western news agency to do so, and has
since made more than 40 trips to the otherwise-isolated country.
Guttenfelder had been an industry leader in smartphone photography, fully
integrating Instagram into his daily work and storytelling. He was named
Time Magazine’s first Instagram Photographer of the Year, received the
Shorty Award for online photography and the Online Journalism Award. His
mobile phone photography was featured at the 2014 Cortona Photo Festival
in Tuscany, the 2010 Visa pour L’Image in Perpignan, France, and will be
projected at the upcoming 2015 LOOK3 Festival in Charlottesville. He was
part of the panel lecture, "Instagramming the News", at the SXSW digital
conference. He is the founder of the Instagram collectives @everydayUSA
and @everydayDPRK.
Guttenfelder is a seven-time World Press Photo Award winner. He is the
2013 ICP Infinity Prize winner for photojournalism and a winner of the
Overseas Press Club of America John Faber, Olivier Rebbot, & Feature
Photography awards. Pictures of the Year International and the NPPA have
named him Photojournalist of the Year. He was short listed for the National
Magazine Award for public interest in 2014. He is a seven-time finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize.
Kira Pollack (@kirapollack)
Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise, TIME
Kira Pollack is the Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise at TIME. In
October 2011, she was named the photo editor of the year at the Lucie
Awards. Since Pollack joined TIME in October 2009, the brand’s photography
has been recognized with many prestigious awards including the World Press
photo of the Year, and the Visa D’Or award at Visa Pour l’Image. Pollack
spearheaded TIME’s Beyond 9/11 project, which was awarded an Emmy in
October of 2012. In March 2011, she established TIME’s photography site
LightBox, and in August, 2013, she established TIME's new documentary film
unit, Red Border Films. Previously, Pollack was the Deputy Photo editor at The
New York Times Magazine.
Maggie Steber (@maggiesteber)
Documentary Photographer
Maggie Steber is a documentary photographer who has worked in 65
countries. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press
Photo Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, and the
Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of
Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, the Ernst Haas Grant, and a Knight
Foundation grant for the New American Newspaper project.
For over three decades, Steber has worked in Haiti. Aperture published her
monograph, DANCING ON FIRE. In 2013, Steber was named as one of eleven
Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine, publishing a book and
touring an exhibition in five cities.
Steber has served as a Newsweek Magazine contract photographer and as the
Asst. Managing Editor of Photography and Features at The Miami Herald,
overseeing projects that won a Pulitzer and were twice finalists for the award.
She served as a jurist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize awards.
Her work is included in the Library of Congress and The Richter Library among
others and she has exhibited internationally.
Clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine, AARP, The Guardian, and Geo Magazine. Steber
teaches workshops internationally including at the World Press Joop Swart
Master Classes, the International Center for Photography, Foundry Workshops
and the Obscura Photo Festival.
Ramin Talaie (@ramintalaie)
Documentary Photographer, Co-Founder, @EverydayIran
Ramin Talaie (ramintalaie.com) is an Iranian-American photographer and
filmmaker based in San Francisco and New York City.
Ramin holds a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering and a Masters of
Business Administration. Ramin is a regular contributor to The New York
Times and The Wall Street Journal among other publications.
He is a 2010-2011 Fellow with The Rosalynn Carter for Mental Health
Journalism covering post 2010 earthquake in Haiti. His work is widely
exhibited at group shows including Fowler Museum at UCLA, Craft & Folk Art
Museum in Los Angeles, South Street Seaport Museum, and International
Center of Photography Museum, as well as the National Portrait Gallery in
London as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
Ramin teaches photojournalism and photography workshops at Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism as a part time Adjunct professor He
is the co-founder of Instagram’s @EverydayIran project and was the founding
director of Document Iran Images, a stock photo agency based in New York
City.