Winners: Getty Images Instagram Grant

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Getty images launched a competition that awarded three Instagram photographers a grant of $10 000 each to advance their photography careers.

The four judges on the panel included TIME‘s Director of Photography Kira Pollack, as well as photographers Ramin Talaie, Maggie Steber, David Guttenfelder and Malin Fezehai.

The three talented winners are Ismail Ferdous, Adriana Zehbrauskas and Dmitry Markov. Take a look at examples of their captivating work below and follow them on Instagram for daily inspiration.

Ismail Ferdous

Repost from @GettyImages: #GettyImagesInstagramGrant Takeover: Ismail Ferdous (@ismailferdous @afterranaplaza), a Bangladeshi documentary photographer using @Instagram to cover social humanitarian issues, received a grant for his project titled “After Rana Plaza,” which centers around the surviving relatives of those killed in the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory. “’After Rana Plaza’ is the successor of the documentary project ‘The Cost of Fashion.’ This project came from a very personal place, as I live among those affected by the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh’s garment industry. Seeing the workers every day, coming and going, is a constant reminder of the collapse and its effects still linger more than two years later.” -@afterranaplaza @ismailferdous A photo posted by After Rana Plaza (@afterranaplaza) on Sep 10, 2015 at 9:31am PDT

Amena and her family members carry on from day to day with minimum subsistence. There is no certainty in their life. Everything seems to be an inchoate cloud of promises and frustrated hope. Only time can tell what is in store for her, but surviving a day requires three meals, and Amena does not know how long she can survive this grinding poverty. Photo: @ismailferdous #afterranaplaza A photo posted by After Rana Plaza (@afterranaplaza) on Sep 11, 2015 at 6:44am PDT

Adriana Zehbrauskas  

Mayela Benavides bathes her daughter Grace in the tub. She still must care for the 8-year-old like an infant. Grace is a lovely girl that suffers from extremely intense epileptic seizures, which medications have failed to subdue. After years of cycling through ­anti-convulsive medications, her family is now desperate to try the one experimental treatment that Mexico prohibits — a marijuana oil that has helped American children in similar conditions. Check the full story on today’s edition of #washingtonpost Shot #onassignment with @partlowj for #washpostphoto #mexico #monterrey #photojournalism #documentary #medical A photo posted by Adriana Zehbrauskas (@adrianazehbrauskas) on Aug 29, 2015 at 2:48pm PDT

Allison and her white dress. Her father is one of the missing 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers Rural School. Back in Guerrero #onassignment for #buzzfeednews with @karlazabs #mexico #guerrero #photography #photojournalism #documentary #43 #ayotzinapa

A photo posted by Adriana Zehbrauskas (@adrianazehbrauskas) on Aug 3, 2015 at 6:08pm PDT

Dmitry Markov  

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A photo posted by Dmitry Markov (@dcim.ru) on Aug 15, 2015 at 11:32am PDT

A photo posted by Dmitry Markov (@dcim.ru) on Aug 21, 2015 at 10:06am PDT

For more information about the competition and the winners, visit imagery.gettyimages.com.