An Instagram spokeswoman, Liz Shepherd, also points to the West Baltimore photographer Devin Allen as an example of the type of local photographers that this grant seeks to encourage. Allen’s Instagrammed image of police in Baltimore last month ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

Photographers have already started using #gettyimagesinstagramgrant to share their potential submissions, and it looks like the competition will be fierce:

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