Photo Archive Grants for HBCUs
To preserve the important, deeply resonant visual history of
Historically Black
Colleges and Universities
For over a century, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been the foundation for academic and cultural development in the Black community. The Libraries at HBCUs contain a wealth of historical imagery that have remained unseen outside of your institutions.
At Getty Images, we are committed to supporting diverse perspectives that offer unique historical and social narratives.
In partnership with the Getty Family and Stand Together, we have launched a new Photo Archive Grants Program to honor and preserve the visual history of HBCUs.
The Grants Program:
HBCUs are an essential part of American history.
The History of HBCUs needs to be seen and celebrated.
The Grants Application must include:
Visual stories become your legacy.
Are you ready to begin?
Application deadline September 30, 2021 (midnight PDT)
For more information about the program please contact us at: HBCUGrant@gettyimages.com
1942: Count Basie and Duke Ellington at Howard University, 513690467, AfroNewspaper/Gado
1972: A Fisk student on set with Carl Moss, 96552199, Robert Abbott Sengstacke
1956: Commencement exercises for nurses at Howard University, 478196315, Afro Newspaper/Gado
Morehouse College, 542407928 John van Hasselt-Corbis / Sygma
1962: Howard University, 121514499,Edouard BOUBAT
Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee 145062766 Interim Archives
1952:Women's track and field at Tuskegee, 504567922, John G. Zimmerman
Preserves HBCUs' valuable photographic archive
Raises awareness of HBCUs' important contributions to American history
Empowers students to be part of preserving their school’s rich visual narratives
Provides a new revenue stream for HBCUs through image licensing on gettyimages.com
Grant Recipients will have full access to digitized content – the institutions will retain all rights.
The winning HBCU will work side-by-side with Getty Images on the curation and digitization process
Your application will be reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges.
A brief introduction to your institution
Description of the state of your current library (e.g. analogue vs. digital content)
Description of how the Grant may impact your institution.
HBCU Grant Judge
Black history is American history. While some of that history is known, too much is still hidden. Our HBCUs
hold a precious and treasured experiences, stories, images, and artifacts. We are excited to participate in this important initiative to preserve and strengthen the ability to amplify our collective story.
Aba Blankson
HBCU Grant Judge
Raina Kelley
The Getty Images Photo Archives Grant for HBCUs is an extraordinary commitment to re-centering Black experience around all that we have been and the promise of what we will be tomorrow.
Through this work, we will receive a much fuller curation of what it means to be Black while also being able to study the imagery and moments that make up our history. I am deeply honored to be a part of this program, which will focus on the ironic and inspirational history of HBCUs.
HBCU Grant Judge
1945: 2 students in a laboratory at Hampton Institurte, 107691985, Herbert / Stringer
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi
Getty Images is one of the main sources for images. Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCUs) have archives of some of the most important images related to Black Lives. The Getty Images Photo Archive Grants for HBCUs is a collaborati on that may increase access and dissemination of these important images to the world. The Getty Images Photo Archive Grants for HBCUs also stands as a model of how to leverage resources and organizational structure to remove barriers to diversity of content and purpose.
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HBCU Grant Judge
1941: US Air Corps school at Tuskegee Institute, 514906168, Bettmann
Dr. Deborah Willis
Photographic collections housed in HBCU’s from the 20th Century focus on the notion of photography as biography and helped shape the fabric of African-American identities. These collections explore the cultural values, educational and religious traditions, as well as perceptions of black communities through to the 21st Century. Collective and individual memories are the foundation of these photographs highlighting the classrooms, student activities on campus, scientific explorations, art practices, and the making of portraits from college presidents to teachers and visitors to the campuses. The Getty Images Photo Archive Grants for HBCUs is an essential part of the on going documentation and preservation of black images at HBCUs.
1947: Students Protest Budget Cuts at Morgan State, 179748501, Afro Newspaper/Gado
Renata Cherlise
HBCU Grant Judge
The recipients of this grant will have unprecedented resources to support their digitizing efforts, in addition to a revenue stream and platform to help make their collections more accessible to scholars, researchers, and artists to learn further, while creating new bodies of work.
1940: Students at Tuskegee Institute, 515328644, Bettmann
Renata Cherlise
HBCU Grant Judge
This initiative serves as an impactful commitment towards the preservation of collective memory within the HBCU experience.
Renata Cherlise
HBCU Grant Judges
Founder, Black Archives
Aba Blankson
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at NAACP
Raina Kelley
Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of The Undefeated
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi
Professor of Sociology—
The Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Deborah Willis
Academic Director, Professor & Chair at NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Mercedes Cooper
Director of Programming at ARRAY
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
An Essential Part of American History
HBCU Grant Judge
Mercedes Cooper
The Getty Images HBCU Grant towards the digitization of historical archives is a vital step in creating access to a full breadth of stories in all forms that document Black life and culture. I deeply value the legacy and traditions upheld by HBCU's and I am excited for the visibility that this grant will provide of heirlooms from our heritage.
1968: Members of Delta Sigma at Hampton Institute, 506673977, Afro Newspaper/Gado
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1942: A law student at Howard University, 615304592, Corbis Historical
Students at Hampton University 113815070 Robert Abbott Sengstacke
1900: Law graduating class at Howard University,90000800, Buyenlarge / Contributor
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