The most moving photo of 2014 was taken by award-winning Getty Images photographer John Moore. In the photo, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center on October 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The girl and her mother, showing symptoms of the deadly disease, were awaiting test results for the virus. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization.
Powerful imagery of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia by John Moore was top of mind globally with his photos voted #1, #2 and #7 respectively.
A total of 294,219 votes were cast from 164 countries globally on photos included in Getty Images’ Year in Focus, an expert curation of the defining images and videos that encapsulate 2014’s most important moments in the world of news, sport, entertainment and archive anniversaries and obituaries.
A total of 294,219 votes were cast from 164 countries globally on photos included in Getty Images’ Year in Focus, an expert curation of the defining images and videos that encapsulate 2014’s most important moments in the world of news, sport, entertainment and archive anniversaries and obituaries.
Ebola is also the subject of the photo voted #10, taken by Reportage by Getty Images photographer Daniel Berehulak.
Getty Images has announced the availability of Getty Images Prestige – a new selection of the company’s highest-quality imagery, boasting a unique aesthetic approach, exceptional craftsmanship and uncompromising quality.
Through exceptional, quality imagery, Getty Images Prestige offers images of “exceptional quality” to boost brands that are increasingly up against flat advertising mediums, tiny screens and shortened attention spans. Photo: Tim Flach/Getty Images
Hand-selected by in-house creative experts and featuring unique collaborations between award-winning photographers and Getty Images’ Art Directors and Editors, Getty Images Prestige makes available the world’s most powerful images for important projects, without the costs and risks inherent in a custom photo shoot.
The updated and easy-to-navigate iOS apps for both Getty Images and iStock by Getty Images feature an improved image search, curation and collaboration experience to help creative storytellers bring their ideas to life wherever they are.
Update (17 July, 2014):
The updated and redesigned Getty Images iOS App is now free to download from the iTunes App Store.
With improved image search, a smoother interface and a more intuitive user experience, users can collaborate with colleagues and clients to help bring ideas to life no matter where they are.
The iStock app can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App Store today.
Getty Images, the global leader in digital media, has unveiled a redesigned iStock by Getty ImagesiOS app with a more intuitive experience and smoother user interface.
“The world’s best creative minds rely on Getty Images for our unique, inspiring content and our refreshed apps make it easier to use than ever,” said Matthew Bencke, Senior Vice President, Product and Customer Experience at Getty Images.
An updated and redesigned Getty Images iOS app will follow on July 17, allowing users to embed and share Getty Images’ immense collection of the very best and unique imagery – at no cost – for non-commercial use on websites, blogs and social media channels, while on the go.
According to a report from Nielsen, in Southeast Asia smartphone owners spent more than three hours per day on average on their smartphones in June 2013 and app usage is burgeoning.
Here’s a selection of interesting tech events happening this week (14-20 October 2012). It is not an exhaustive list and represents only a sampling of events that gives a taste of the tech pulse in Singapore.
What are some of the more interesting tech events happening in Singapore?
This week sees the continuation of buzz building up to the General Availability of Windows 8. Intel, Samsung, HP and Sony have already showcased their respective offerings. Next week, Microsoft will be releasing Windows 8 on 26 October 2012.
Event listing on tech4tea.com
You can see this selection of events in the right sidebar.
Event organisers can submit your events for listing to johntan@tech4tea.com – but there are no promises that your event will be featured.
Audiophiles can look forward to the launch of Swiss Piega handmade speakers by Atlas Singapore, while photographers finally see the Lytro light field camera officially launched in Singapore.
The much anticipated Samsung GALAXY Note II and GALAXY Camera will be launched at the Ritz-Carlton; while BlackBerry and ZALORA join hands to present a fashion show inspired by the BlackBerry Bold smartphones.
On the enterprise side, Progress Software and NCS are talks about growth in big data and the realtime analytic industries, while DPM Teo Chee Hean opens Techventure 2012.
Finally, wrap up the week with a bit of fun and learning at Canon Imaging Academy, shooting out-and-about Singapore and learning about shooting stock photos along the way.
15 October (Sunday)
BlackBerry JamHack 2012
5-city, 3-day, 40-hour hackathon organised by 5 developer groups & communities in Asia Pacific, supported by RIM.
Culminates in App Pitches on the last day on 15 Oct.
Venue: Delhi, Bangalore, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila
15 October (Monday)
Realtime analytics for business
Progress Software and NCS talks about growth in big data and realtime analytic industries.
16 October (Tuesday)
Lytro launch
Official launch of the Lytro light field camera in Singapore.
Venue: Clarke Quay
17 October (Wednesday)
Samsung launch of GALAXY Note II and GALAXY Camera
Launch of Samsung’s latest products in Singapore.
Venue: Ritz-Carlton
17-18 October (Wednesday to Thursday)
Techventure 2012
This year’s theme, “Äsia.Innovation.Renaisance”, highlights the economic transformation in Asia and opportunities for businesses from technological innovation.
Venue: Marina Bay Sands
18 October (Thursday)
Fashionably Bold
BlackBerry and ZALORA collaborates on a fashion show inspired by the BlackBerry Bold smartphones.
Venue: 72-13 Mohammed Sultan Road
19 October (Friday)
Piega launch by Atlas
Swiss Piega launching a range of exclusive handmade speakers in Singapore.
Venue: Atlas Showroom @ Windstedt
20-22 October (Saturday to Monday)
Singapore iStockalypse
iStockphoto and Getty Images are partnering with Canon Singapore to organise this 3-day photo-workshop to shoot Singapore.
Theory on Saturday, followed by portfolio review on Sunday and out-and-about shooting on Monday.
Super high-resolution image will capture each of the 70,000 spectators in detail. The 20-Gigapixel photograph will be uploaded and spectators will be able to zoom in, locate and tag themselves.
Getty Images is the official Photographic Agency for the London 2012 Olympic Games which opens tomorrow.
Ahead of tomorrow’s Olympics Opening Ceremony in London, Getty Images and Fujitsu have announced that they will be snapping a gigapixel photograph of the event, enabling spectators – all 70,000 of them! – to zoom in, find and tag themselves.
This is the camera set up that Getty Images’ gigapixel photographer Henry Stuart will be using at London 2012 Olympics. It’s a Nikon D800. (Photo credit: Henry Stuart)
Images of such a high resolution usually take days to upload but thanks to leading-edge speed and performance of the Fujitsu CELSIUS R920 workstation, the image will be available to view on www.gettyimages.com overnight – up to 12 times faster than previously possible.
This will be the 13th consecutive Olympics for which Getty Images has been appointed as the Official Photographic Agency to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Photographers Linka Anne Odom and Klaus Thymann, alongside agencies Good Pilot and Mother London, have won the 2012 Getty Images Creative Grants.
Each of the two teams will receive US$15,000.
Pathways sees photographer Linka Anne Odom and agency Good Pilot collaborate with D-Foundation to pursue a project which aims to recruit volunteers to increase effectiveness of medical care provided to vulnerable people in India. Through their visual communication, they aim to inspire doctors to travel to India and donate their skills to the project, as well as raise awareness around D-Foundation itself by creating pop-up exhibitions highlighting the charity’s work in hospitals around Germany.
This year, the Getty Images Creative Grants received 75 submissions from photographers and agencies in 20 countries.
Each team comprises a photographer and communications professional.
The US$15,000 will be used to cover the costs of developing compelling new imagery to strengthen the communications of a non-profit organisation the recipients have chosen to support.
Project Pressure, by photographer Klaus Thymann and agency Mother London will visually highlight global glacial history, before the demise of this natural wonder. The grant will enable Thymann to travel to Nepal, where he will document the field work of the Project Pressure team and the impact of glacial retreat on the local population. As well as imagery and video, Mother London will also utilize social media platforms and narrated slideshows to record his work.
James Holman (Copywriter) and Nuno Teixeira (Art Director) from TBWA, Singapore has won the prestigious Young Lions Print Competition at the 2012 Cannes Lions advertising festival.
Winning entry from Singapore for the Young Lions Print Competition at the 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Second and third places go to United Arab Emirates and Belgium.
The Young Lions Competition is designed to catapult the careers of rising stars that are set to redefine the future use of imagery in advertising.
First runner-up from the United Arab Emirates.
The Young Lions Competition is being sponsored by Getty Images for the 15th consecutive year.
Getty Images was the exclusive content provider for the competitions, enabling contestants to draw from its broad range of creative, editorial, multimedia and archival collections.
This year’s brief, disclosed to competitors on 16 June, was set by Control Arms – a global civil society alliance campaigning for a “bulletproof” Arms Trade Treaty, founded by Oxfam.
The society disclosed a brief to raise awareness amongst State leaders and negotiators at the United Nations in the build up to the Arms Trade Treaty meetings in July of this year.
Second runner-up from Belgium.
41 teams, comprising of an Art Director and Copywriter under 28 years of age, had just 24 hours to interpret the brief and develop a print advertisement, using content sourced from Getty Images’ range of creative, editorial and archival collections.
The work was scrutinised by the Jury members, headed up by this year’s Cannes Lions Jury President, Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Chief Creative Officer at Ogilvy & Mather.
Getty Images announced today the rebranding of the Grants for Good as Getty Images Creative Grants. Two grants of $15,000 are up for grabs. Applications close on 1 March.
Getty Images Creative Grants – applications end on 1 March.
The rebranded Getty Images Creative Grants will increase emphasis on the innovative use of creative and conceptual imagery and film.
“Nonprofits need compelling creative content to effectively tell their stories and stand out from the documentary style traditionally associated with the nonprofit sector,” said Andrew Saunders, Senior Vice President of Creative Content for Getty Images. “Together with creative agencies and content creators these organizations can leverage innovative conceptual imagery to raise awareness around critical world issues.”Fostering the collaboration between photographers and filmmakers with agency creatives and nonprofits, the grants will fund the creation of a compelling visual campaign that promotes positive change.
In addition to the cash prize, the winning photographer-agency or filmmaker-agency team will have the opportunity to leverage the expertise of Getty Images’ art directors, photo editors and producers to execute the project.
Online applications can be made at the website of Getty Images Grants.
The grants will be awarded by independent judges, each selected by Getty Images based on their industry standing and experience.
The 2012 Creative Grants judging panel will consist of:
Nick Law, EVP, Chief Creative Officer of North America, R/GA
Jonny Bauer, Head of Strategy, Droga5
Karl Heiselman, CEO, Wolff Olins
Applications will be evaluated against criteria which include the strength and concept of the portfolio imagery as well as the level of collaboration between the creative communications agency and the nonprofit, to create a compelling visual narrative.
