The Press Association (PA), home to one of the most prestigious picture libraries in the UK, has entered into a strategic partnership with Getty Images, a world-leading visual communications company.

The distribution deal will see over a century’s worth of definitive moments from British politics, sports entertainment, and more, reach an even larger international customer base through Getty Images’ global distribution network, which spans almost one million customers in close to 200 countries.

Under the terms of the deal, over four million wholly-owned photographs from PA Images – PA’s editorial photography business – will be distributed via www.gettyimages.com in selected markets across Asia, Australia & New Zealand, EMEA, Latin America and the US. Customers will have the option to search in multiple languages and make payments in a range of currencies.

Both up-to-the minute and archive collections from the PA Images’ portfolio will be available on the Getty Images website, including royal photography from Queen Victoria to Princess Charlotte, definitive moments from British politics, comprehensive coverage of major sporting events, and some of the most recognisable faces from the world of entertainment.

Stephen Munday, Managing Director of PA Images, said:

“PA photographers have been documenting the biggest moments in British history at home and abroad for almost 150 years, and this new partnership with Getty Images will expand the reach of our extensive picture library.  I have no doubt that Getty Images’ international platform and licensing expertise will help our content to reach new audiences around the world.”

Lee Martin, Senior Vice President Sales EMEA & Asia, Getty Images said:

“Customers globally come to Getty Images for an unmatched depth, breadth and quality of visual coverage from the red carpet, football stadium, conflict zones and beyond, produced by our own award-winning photographers and videographers and those of our trusted image partners. Getty Images is proud to partner with PA, whose rich history of journalistic excellence in imagery will be a valuable addition to our existing market-leading editorial offering. We look forward to expanding the reach of this content and to a long and successful collaboration with PA.”

PA Images’ collection will launch on the Getty Images website later this year.

Grants of $50,000 collectively awarded to five photojournalists

Perpignan, France – 1 September, 2016 – Getty Images, the world’s leader in visual communications, has today announced the recipients of its annual Grants for Editorial Photography programme, which sees five photojournalists receive a grant of US$10,000, as well as collaborative editorial support from Getty Images. The programme further cements Getty Images’ mission and commitment to fostering photographic talent.

 
The winning photojournalists and corresponding projects, which were announced last night at Visa pour l’Image, are:

 
– Sergey Ponomarev for Exodus, a project which explores the migrants and refugees of the Middle East and Africa.
– Katie Orlinsky for Chasing Winter, which examines the effects of climate change in Alaska.
– Mary Frances Calvert for Prisoners of War: Male-on-male Rape in America’s Military, a body of work that documents American military rape survivors who are forced out of service.
– Jonathan Torgovnik for The ‘Hijacked Life’ of African Migrants in Johannesburg, a project which examines the complex issues faced by migrants from the African continent upon arrival in South Africa.
– Kirsten Luce receives the David Laidler Memorial Award for Border Security.  Her project, captured in the southernmost point of Texas, examines the busiest corridor for human and drug trafficking in the US.

 
Getty Images’ Chief Executive Officer Dawn Airey comments: “The Getty Images Grants programme highlights our significant commitment to the craft of photography. Photojournalism plays a vital role in shining a light on complex social and environmental issues and we are honoured to support the production of ground-breaking work, as exemplified through our 2016 Editorial Grant recipients.
We believe in the power of imagery to move the world and I am extremely proud that our programme continues to provide emerging and established photographic talent with the financial freedom to explore their own projects of personal and journalistic significance.”

 
This is the first year Getty Images has announced a recipient for the David Laidler Memorial Award – a grant named in honour of the late David Laidler, a former Getty Images employee, who passed away in August 2015. David was instrumental in bringing the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography programme to life.

 
This year Getty Images received 459 submissions from over 75 countries.

 
The panel of notable judges included:

 
– Carolyn Cole, Photographer, Los Angeles Times
– Jean-Francois Leroy, Director, Visa pour l’Image
– Eli Reed, Photographer, Magnum Photos
– Paul Moakley, Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise, TIME
– Sarah Leen, Director of Photography, National Geographic

Established in 2004, the Getty Images Grants programme is the largest of its kind, providing financial support in excess of US$1.3 million since its inception 12 years ago. For further information, visit: http://wherewestand.gettyimages.com/gi_grants/grants-for-editorial-photography/

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Notes to editors – summary of the winning projects

Sergey Ponomarev for Exodus
Europe is experiencing one of the most significant influxes of migrants and refugees in its history. This project looks at the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled the Middle East and Africa, risking their lives along the way; who are treating Europe as the ‘promised land.’ They begin the next leg of the journey across Europe by boat, by train, by bus and on foot, from border to border, with a vague notion of reaching Germany, Sweden or Norway.

Katie Orlinsky for Chasing Winter
This project explores how climate change is challenging communities across Alaska, and transforming the relationship between people, animals and the land. Vanishing sea ice, retreating glaciers, an explosion of wildfires, intense storms and diminishing natural habitats are pressuring hundreds of local animal species – and the people who depend on them.

Mary Frances Calvert for Prisoners of War: Male-on-male Rape in America’s Military
According to a Pentagon survey that was released in May 2016, men make up 52% of the estimated 20,000 sexual assaults in the US military and face a completely different set of challenges than survivors who are women. This project highlights the many military rape survivors who are forced out of service and many who are even compelled to continue working for their rapists.

Jonathan Torgovnik for The ‘Hijacked Life’ of African Migrants in Johannesburg
At a time when the world’s attention is directed towards the thousands of African migrants trying to reach the shores of Europe, little attention is given to the fact that thousands of African migrants are looking south and arriving in South Africa’s most affluent city, Johannesburg. This projects looks at the poverty that awaits these migrants, including the slum lords who run the communities they are forced to live in.

Kirsten Luce for Border Security
The Rio Grande Valley lies just across the river from Mexico in the southernmost tip of Texas. There are over a million residents, the vast majority of which are poor with Mexican heritage. The valley is the busiest corridor for drug and human trafficking in the US. This project looks at the intersection of culture, law enforcement and immigration in this contentious and isolated corner of the world.

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SOHO opens at Getty Images Gallery, London

22nd September – 19th November 2016

Getty Images Gallery, in the heart of the West End, today announces SOHO, a new exhibition that unearths rare imagery of the famous entertainment district in London during its heyday.

Soho has long been notorious for its night life and reputation as a base for the sex industry in London, characteristics which made the area a popular haunt for celebrities, artists and musicians alike. An exhibition which will be eye opening for many and a trip down memory lane for some, SOHO juxtaposes the district’s seedy underbelly with the hustle and bustle of everyday people on the street through a series of beautiful photographs carefully selected from Getty Images’ vast historical archives.

Featured in the exhibition are images of iconic musicians, including David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust performing his famous gig at The Marquee Club on Wardour Street in 1980, and jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis performing at the renowned and ever popular Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club.  Along with photographs of Soho’s glamorous nightlife, the exhibition brings to light images of the everyday local communities of Soho’s past: shoeshines, street cleaners and city workers.

The exhibition came to life after the discovery of a glass-plate from 1910 called ‘The Smallest Shop’, which was situated at 4 Bateman Street in Soho. This tiny shop measured only six feet long, five feet high and two feet deep. The shop’s novelty caught the attention of the Getty Images Gallery, whose researchers began a yearlong project to mine the archives for more pictures that encapsulate the fascinating history of this truly iconic area.

SOHO is a celebration of the diverse faces that helped establish the area as one of London’s most famous villages and a reminder of the importance of preserving the area’s rich architectural and cultural history into the future.

SOHO runs from 22nd September – 19th November 2016, and admission is free. Getty Images Gallery is situated in central London, just a stone’s throw away from Oxford Circus. Opening hours are from 10.00am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, 12.00pm to 5.30pm Saturday.