Getty Images and Verizon Media award $40,000 in prizes

REPRESENTATION MATTERS: Lawrence Carter-Long, communications director for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), spokesperson for the National Disability Leadership Alliance, and Creative Bursary judge believes that upgrading the way society sees disability begins with the creative process: “The Disability Stories grants have gone beyond wishful thinking by giving photographers the actual means to turn inspiration into perspiration—to make their creative vision real.”