Panos photographer Robin Hammond has been working on a long-term project about Zimbabwe for the past 2 years. Around 21 April 2012, he was arrested in the South of the country while photographing near the border with South Africa.

After over two weeks in a jail in Beitbridge he was moved to the capital Harare on Saturday 5 May. After intercession from his lawyers and the New Zealand authorities, Robin being a NZ citizen, he was finally released after 3 weeks in detention on 10 May 2012.

He is being flown to London and from there on to Paris. All of us at Panos Pictures and his family and girlfriend Aude Barbera are delighted that he is free and safe.

Adam Hinton’s photo book Shibuya which looks at the maddening daily commute and struggle of Tokyo workers and salarymen at the world’s busiest intersection and train station has been published by This is Real Art (TiRA).

Click HERE to buy a copy from TiRA

Click on the image below to view the full set on the Panos website.

Mark Henley has been named Swiss Press Photographer of the Year 2012 for his longterm work looking at the opaque and secretive world of Swiss banking in Zurich and Geneva.

To view the full set on the Panos site, click HERE or on the image below.

You can also view a multimedia film by Panos producers Anna Stevens and Valeria Cardi.

The Vaults from panos pictures on Vimeo.

Panos’ Archive Sales Manager Paula James will be speaking at the Magnum Professional Practice seminar on 13 May 2012 at:

Central St Martins
Kings Cross Campus
Granary Building
1 Granary Square
London, N1C 4AA

at 3.00pm.
To book tickets to attend, click HERE.

The event is organised by the creative network Ideas Tap.

We celebratedd 25 years of Panos Pictures at the Frontline Club in London on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 with a special conversation with Adrian Evans, director of Panos Pictures and Panos photographers Chloe Dewe Mathews and Andrew Testa. The talk was chaired by Paul Lowe, Panos photographers and course leader of the MA in Photojournalism at the London College of Communication.

Andrew has been a member of Panos since 1999 after freelancing for the Guardian and Observer since the early 90s. He made a name for himself covering the various crises and wars in the Balkans and has collected an impressive array of awards including three World Press Photo prizes.

Chloe is one of Panos’ newest members, joining the agency in 2011. Her long term project on the Caspian Sea won her the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award.

Thank you very much to everyone for coming and for making the discussion so interesting and inspiring.

© Chryssa Panoussiadou/Panos Pictures

Stefan Boness’ photo project on the architectural Bauhaus legacy in Tel Aviv has been published as a photo book by Jovis Verlag in Germany.

The book – Tel Aviv: The White City – is available to buy on Amazon. Cick on the images below or HERE to buy a copy.

Today, 20th April, is the first anniversary of Tim Hetherington’s tragic death in Misrata, Libya.

Tim is dearly missed as an irreplaceable friend and long term contributor to Panos Pictures. Our thoughts are with his family and friends, and those of Chris Hondros who died with Tim, on this sad day.

Journalists and photographers continue to be targeted in conflict zones as the recent deaths in Homs of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik remind us.

Ivor Prickett and Guy Martin’s work on Egypt and Libya will be exhibited at:

Side Gallery
9 Side
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 3JE
Tel: +44 191 232 2208

from 21 April until 9 June 2012.

Guy and Ivor will be at the gallery discussing their work from 2.00pm on Saturday, 28 April 2012.

Chris de Bode’s work will be featured on the Dutch TV station NCRV. Click on the image below to view the clip.