"Getty Images is proud to be associated with Bloomberg and its spirit of innovation and journalistic excellence," said Peter Orlowsky, vice president of business development for Getty Images. "This cooperation enables Getty Images to provide its customers around the world an unparalleled product and service of truly rich and comprehensive news photography. Bloomberg's superior photographic coverage of the business and financial sectors is the perfect complement to our specialized, thorough coverage of the today's top news stories, and will strengthen Getty Images' position as the leading service to media customers worldwide."

"Bloomberg is very excited to collaborate with Getty Images," said Dylan Cohen, global head of content syndication at Bloomberg. "The availability of BLOOMBERG PHOTOS content through Getty Images reinforces our commitment to deliver top quality coverage and unsurpassed customer service to business and finance news consumers around the world."

Over the past several years, Getty Images has built a world-class Editorial division, which is comprised of news, sport and entertainment imagery, and collectively has been one of the fastest growing parts of its business. The growth has been based on a strong focus on the highest quality photography, the creation of an all-digital offering, development of an industry leading website, and partnering with best-of-breed organizations. This blend of news agency quality, combined with wire speed, relevance and accessibility, has led to Getty Images' imagery appearing across the world's leading newspapers and magazines, as well earning many of the most prestigious awards from renowned organizations.

Bloomberg joins a number of media companies that have utilized Getty Images' proprietary digital platform and expert industry knowledge. The BLOOMBERG PHOTOS archive can be viewed online at www.gettyimages.com/bloomberg.

About Getty Images

Getty Images is the world's leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world's most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.

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Aidan Sullivan, vice president of photo assignments for Getty Images, said, "We're very grateful to our judges who carefully considered 199 applications and proposals from professional photojournalists across 26 countries, along with 24 student proposals from 8 countries."

The grant judges included:

- Cheryl Newman, Picture Editor, Telegraph Magazine (UK)

- Jean-Francois Leroy, Director General, Visa Pour l'Image (France)

- Volker Lensch, Department Head, Stern Magazine (Germany)

"Getty Images is honored that in its first five years, our grants have empowered 24 photojournalists to bring eye-opening visual essays to the world's attention," said Sullivan. "We're delighted with the judges' choices of the newest winners, whose projects deal with some of the most compelling issues of our time."

- Krisanne Johnson's project, "I Love You Real Fast," examines the lives of young women in Swaziland, where women have a life expectancy of close to 31, due to the country's high rate of HIV infections.

- Brenda Kenneally's project, "Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City," studies the issues of class and poverty in Troy, New York, a once-prosperous city whose traditions and culture have been disrupted by numerous economic and social issues.

- Zalmai's project, "Promises and Lies," reveals the human cost of the war on terror in Afghanistan.

- Carl Kiilsgaard's project, "The White Family," follows a family that has lived in rural Kentucky - where, in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty that has not yet been won - for generations.

- Ed Ou's project, "Perilous Journey," documents the full journey that Somali refugees take as each year thousands flee from the violence in Mogadishu to the port city of Bosasso and the perilous boat journey to Yemen begins, as they seek work as laborers in the oil-rich Persian Gulf.

Getty Images is a creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music.

Information:

gettyimages.com/grants

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Aidan Sullivan, vice president of photo assignments for Getty Images, marked the occasion by saying, "We're very grateful to our judges who carefully considered 199 applications and proposals from professional photojournalists across 26 countries, along with 24 student proposals from 8 countries." The grant judges included:

-- Cheryl Newman, Picture Editor, Telegraph Magazine (UK)

-- Jean-Francois Leroy, Director General, Visa Pour l'Image (France)

-- Volker Lensch, Department Head, Stern Magazine (Germany)

"Getty Images is honored that in its first five years, our grants have empowered 24 photojournalists to bring eye-opening visual essays to the world's attention," added Sullivan. "We're delighted with the judges' choices of the newest winners, whose projects deal with some of the most compelling issues of our time."

Krisanne Johnson's project, "I Love You Real Fast," examines the lives of young women in Swaziland, where women have a life expectancy of close to 31, due to the country's high rate of HIV infections. "My intent is not only to shed light on their struggle, but to present the full spectrum of their experiences and to capture deeper, truer visual references that are distinct from a sea of status quo images that define Africa to most of the world," said Johnson.

Brenda Kenneally's project, "Upstate Girls: What Became of Collar City," studies the issues of class and poverty in Troy, New York, a once-prosperous city whose traditions and culture have been disrupted by numerous economic and social issues. "My project has followed seven women for five years as their escape routes from poverty have led to further entrapments," said Kenneally. "In compiling a generational history of the emotional spiral of those resigned to the lower class in the United States, I will use my grant to continue this work over the next year, as the need for nuanced and sustained journalism will be crucial to reflect the social fallout from the economic crisis."

Zalmai's project, "Promises and Lies," reveals the human cost of the war on terror in Afghanistan. "As most of the western media focuses on what is taking place militarily, I feel strongly that the extensive human tragedy taking place in my country is being ignored by Western eyes and is going unnoticed to the rest of the world," said Zalmai. "I also believe that one can never find a solution to such tragedy if one does not look at the whole picture."

Carl Kiilsgaard's project, "The White Family," follows a family that has lived in rural Kentucky -- where, in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty that has not yet been won -- for generations. Kiilsgaard notes that, "The Getty Images grant will allow me to continue to raise awareness about those struggling in a region that most Americans have forgotten."

Ed Ou's project, "Perilous Journey," documents the full journey that Somali refugees take as each year thousands flee from the violence in Mogadishu to the port city of Bosasso and the perilous boat journey to Yemen begins, as they seek work as laborers in the oil-rich Persian Gulf.

More information about the new grant winners and judges, as well as previous winners and their completed projects, can be found at www.gettyimages.com/grants.

About Getty Images

Getty Images is the world's leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world's most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites. Getty Images believes in the power of imagery to drive positive change, educate, inform, and entertain. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.

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"This partnership will merge Getty Images' world-class content with Daylife's technology, creating new tools for our media and publishing customers that enable them to curate and publish dynamic rich content easily and seamlessly on their websites in order to maximize traffic and advertising potential," said Getty Images CEO and co-founder, Jonathan Klein. "Working with Daylife is further confirmation of our continued and unstinting commitment to move the industry forward for the benefit of the changing needs of our customers."

SmartGalleries offers the most editorially efficient way for customers to curate and publish a limitless number of photo galleries to their websites. With SmartGalleries' intelligent image discovery, real-time autofill support, gallery curation and management tools, editors can create more galleries faster, taking full advantage of the huge range of Getty Images news, sport, entertainment and archive photography.

The product offers simple, seamless integration with existing websites, as the SmartGalleries can be tailored to match any interface or branding requirements. A fully hosted solution, SmartGalleries is a simple way to increase page views-per-visit through an enticingly visual, infinitely clickable user experience without additional IT, bandwidth, or hosting demands.

"The partnership between Getty Images and Daylife will enable our customers to stay ahead of emerging trends in real-time media, content curation, and more fluid user experiences," said Upendra Shardanand, CEO of Daylife. "Daylife has invested heavily in our market-leading technology platform and easy-to-use editorial tools. Together, Getty Images and Daylife will provide an even more engaging experience for our customers who now have access to Getty Images' best-in-class photography."

SmartGalleries is the first offering from the partnership. Getty Images and Daylife will continue to integrate their leading content and technology to introduce solutions and products that further simplify and enhance the digital publishing process and results for companies, events and organizations.

About Getty Images

Getty Images is the world's leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content, including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn to discover purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world's most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative ideas to come to life.

About Daylife

Daylife enables effortless, real-time publication of high-quality content on any website, whether it's a niche blog or a global publishing brand. Some of the world's leading media companies and consumer brands use Daylife SmartMedia products to improve their traffic, user engagement, advertising yield and operating efficiency. Visit www.daylife.com to see how publishers can benefit from Daylife's easy-to-use, market leading platform

SOURCE: Getty Images, Inc.

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Media Contacts for Daylife: 
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