Getty Images, with Verizon and the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA), ran this 2025 creative grant to fund commercial photo or video projects showing people with disabilities as professionals, leaders and colleagues.
Three winners carry out their proposed project over six months, with optional art-director mentorship. The call closed on 7 March 2025 and winners have been announced; no new call is posted. Getty ran an earlier disability-themed creative grant in 2022.
Benefits & funding
- Prizes: US$10,000 (first), US$7,000 (second), US$3,000 (third).
- Option to license up to 20 grant images or videos through Getty Images at a 100% royalty on net licence fees, under a separate contributor agreement; not compulsory.
- Mentorship from a Getty Images art director, a Creative Insights feature and social promotion.
- Six months to complete the project; the prize may be taxable and Getty provides no insurance.
Eligibility
- Emerging photographers or videographers: pursuing it as a career for less than five years.
- Of legal age of majority where they live, and from a country or jurisdiction where the contest meets all legal requirements.
- Individuals or teams; each person may appear on only one application per year.
- Employees of Getty Images, Verizon and their affiliates, and their immediate families or households, are barred; non-employee Getty contributors may apply.
- No nationality restriction is stated; applications must be in English.
Can you apply?
Here's who can apply
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“The Getty Images Creative Bursary is open to individuals who (i) are of a country or jurisdiction in which the competition fully satisfies all legal requirements for a contest of this nature; (ii) are of legal age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence as of date of entry; and (iii) is an emerging photographer or videographer.” Eligibility
Experience required
≤ 4 yrs
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Application process
- 1Prepare links to an online portfolio, a short biography and a 200–500-word proposal explaining how the project shows disabled people at work.
- 2Add an inspirational mood board and a short essay on your approach (listed in the terms, not on the grant page).
- 3Submit digitally through Getty Images’ Submittable form by midnight US Eastern Time, 7 March 2025; the 2025 form is now offline.
Program timeline
Applications opened
Feb 5, 2025
Application deadline
Mar 7, 2025
Winners announced
Early to mid-April 2025