CLICK HERE FOR THE PANOS PICTURES SEARCHABLE WEBSITE

FIND PHOTOS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS   |   FIND PHOTOS BY KEYWORD   |   FIND PHOTOS BY CAPTION   |   LINKS   |   PANOS WEBSITE LINKS

Panos Pictures is a London-based independent photo agency representing photojournalists worldwide. Our photographers document issues and geographical areas which are under-reported, misrepresented or ignored. In a media climate dominated by celebrity and lifestyle Panos aims to provide fresh perspectives on the world. Panos photographers are available for assignment on every continent. Their in depth knowledge of local conditions enables them to deliver even in the most difficult situations. This website allows you to search, download and purchase from our ever growing archive of digitised images. If you cannot find the image you require our experienced researchers are on hand to help you locate what you are looking for in our physical archive of over 500,000 images. Half of the profits from the agency are given to the Panos Insititute to further its work on issues around media and communications, globalisation, HIV/AIDS and environment and conflict.

To locate a photo you can find on these pages, click a link below;

Page: 53  
Photo Captions Page 1  Photo Captions Page 2  Photo Captions Page 3  Photo Captions Page 4  Photo Captions Page 5  Photo Captions Page 6  Photo Captions Page 7  Photo Captions Page 8  Photo Captions Page 9  Photo Captions Page 10  Photo Captions Page 11  Photo Captions Page 12  Photo Captions Page 13  Photo Captions Page 14  Photo Captions Page 15  Photo Captions Page 16  Photo Captions Page 17  Photo Captions Page 18  Photo Captions Page 19  Photo Captions Page 20  Photo Captions Page 21  Photo Captions Page 22  Photo Captions Page 23  Photo Captions Page 24  Photo Captions Page 25  Photo Captions Page 26  Photo Captions Page 27  Photo Captions Page 28  Photo Captions Page 29  Photo Captions Page 30  Photo Captions Page 31  Photo Captions Page 32  Photo Captions Page 33  Photo Captions Page 34  Photo Captions Page 35  Photo Captions Page 36  Photo Captions Page 37  Photo Captions Page 38  Photo Captions Page 39  Photo Captions Page 40  Photo Captions Page 41  Photo Captions Page 42  Photo Captions Page 43  Photo Captions Page 44  Photo Captions Page 45  Photo Captions Page 46  Photo Captions Page 47  Photo Captions Page 48  Photo Captions Page 49  Photo Captions Page 50  Photo Captions Page 51  Photo Captions Page 52  Photo Captions Page 53  Photo Captions Page 54  Photo Captions Page 55  

00007943 : CHINA Guangzhou - Harvesting onions near a new business college in Longtong village.
00007942 : CHINA Guangzhou - Morning Tai Chi for office workers in Haizhu Square.
00007938 : CHINA Fuzhou - Housing for mining workers.
00007937 : CHINA - The Great Wall.
00007936 : CHINA - The Pamir Mountain range along the Karakoram Highway.
00007935 : CHINA Yunnan Province - Indigenous woman in traditional dress.
00007934 : CHINA Yunnan Province - Tribal women preparing hemp thread.
00007933 : CHINA Beijing - Inside the Forbidden City.
00007932 : CHINA Kashgar - Sides of meat for sale in the market.
00007931 : CHINA Shanghai - A small creek in one of the few untouched areas of Old Shanghai, with Pudong in the distance.
00007930 : CHINA Beijing - 'Welcome to Beijing' mural.
00007929 : CHINA Shenzhen - City skyline.
00007928 : CHINA Urumqi, Xinjiang Province - Slum housing built right next to polluting industry on the outskirts of the city.
00007927 : CHINA Nr. Xiamen - Tile factory and other industry polluting the air.
00007926 : CHINA Nr. Xiamen - A little boy wearing a fake Disney T-shirt watches as an old man carries goods through this heavily polluted, industrial area.
00007925 : CHINA Beijing - Hall of the People, Tiananmen Square.
00007924 : CHINA Shenzhen - Man seeming to bow in front of a poster of Deng Xiaoping.
00007923 : CHINA Beijing - Soldiers and weary day-trippers in Tiananmen Square.
00007922 : CHINA Kashgar - Putting the finishing touches to a statue of Mao.
00007921 : CHINA Kashgar - Statue of Mao.
00007920 : CHINA Shanghai - View of the city and the Huangpu river.
00007919 : CHINA Nr. Xiamen - Heavily industrialised town.
00007917 : CHINA Shanghai - Signs of wealth - an American car parked outside a health club.
00007916 : CHINA Shanghai - Construction workers.
00007914 : CHINA Urumqi, Xinjiang Province - Sign promoting the province of Xinjiang, written in Chinese, Arabic, English and Russian.
00007913 : CHINA Shenzhen - Woman cleaning outside the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
00007911 : CHINA Shenzhen - A mural of Deng Xiaoping looming over a city street.
00007910 : CHINA Shanghai - Old residential area.
00007909 : CHINA Fuzhou - A girl washing her hair by the roadside.
00007908 : CHINA Shanghai - The ring road is built over the circumference of the old city walls.
00007907 : CHINA Yangzhou - Cormorant fisherman.
00007906 : CHINA Kashgar - A little boy selling beer in the Sunday market.
00007905 : CHINA Shenzhen - A posse of department store security guards undergoing martial arts training.
00007904 : CHINA Shanghai - Group exercises on the Bund, with the Pudong skyline in the distance.
00007903 : CHINA Guangzhou - Workers assembling suitcases in a factory.
00007902 : CHINA Beijing - Wangpujing Street, one of the city's premier shopping streets.
00007899 : CHINA Nr. Guangzhou - Morning exercises at the 'China's Little Heroes' private school. Boys greatly outnumber girls.
00007898 : CHINA Nr. Guangzhou - Security guards outside the 'China's Little Heroes' private school.
00007897 : CHINA Kashgar - Elderly Uighur Muslim man.
00007895 : CHINA Beijing - A man fishing in the moat of the Forbidden City.
00007894 : CHINA Nr. Yangshuo, Guangxi Province - Fishermen and limestone mountains.
00007893 : CHINA Nr. Guilin - Dramatic limestone mountains.
00007892 : CHINA Beijing - Father and son in Tiananmen Square.
00007891 : CHINA North West - Supplies are dropped off by truck in an ethnic Kazakh village. The people live in yurts.
00007889 : CHINA Xinjiang Province - Kazakh woman stitching together a yurt.
00007888 : CHINA - Workers at a coal depot.
00007887 : CHINA - Ancient silk embroidery.
00007886 : CHINA Central Beijing - Construction workers peering over a wall into a huge new development.
00007885 : CHINA Kashgar - Livestock market.
00007884 : CHINA South - Rural scenery.
00007883 : CHINA Shanghai - Neon lights on Nanjing East Road, a major shopping street.
00007882 : CHINA Shanghai - A window cleaner dangling above the city.
00007881 : CHINA Urumqi, Xinjiang Province - Breakfast is served on a roadside stall.
00007879 : CHINA Shanghai - Construction workers.
00007878 : CHINA Shanghai - Nanjing Road on a busy Sunday night.
00007877 : CHINA Shenzhen - A posse of department store security guards undergoing training.
00007876 : CHINA Beijing - Portrait of Chairman Mao hanging on a market stall.
00007875 : CHINA Xi'an - Elderly couple waiting to cross the road.
00007874 : CHINA Shanghai - Steaming dumplings on the side of the street.
00007871 : CHINA Nr. Xiamen - Women working in a tile factory.
00007870 : CHINA Xi'an - A small pavement restaurant in the Muslim quarter.
00007869 : CHINA Guanzhou - Draining blood out of the body of a dog before it is sold as food.
00007868 : CHINA Beijing - Grandmother and grandchild.
00007867 : CHINA Nr. Guangzhou - Computer class at the ‘China’s Little Heroes’ private school, which is very well-equipped. An expensive alternative to state education.
00007866 : CHINA Urumqi, Xinjiang Province - Internet advertising on the high street.
00007865 : CHINA - Sheep-herder in a village on the outskirts of Beijing.
00007864 : CHINA Fuzhou - Film star Jackie Chan endorses a Chinese-made computer on an advertising billboard.
00007863 : CHINA Shanghai - People standing on the Bund, looking across to the Pudong district.
00007862 : CHINA Urumqi, Xinjiang Province - Slum housing and industry on the outskirts of the city.
00007824 : INDIA - A man stands outside a lavatory which provides fuel for a biogas generator (left).
00007823 : SENEGAL - Fulani women and child.
00007822 : MOZAMBIQUE - 13 year old girl, raped by RENAMO and now a mother.
00007820 : UGANDA Kampala - Loading American food aid in a World Food Programme store at Ntinda.
00007819 : VIETNAM Hanoi - Rice dealer in the market.
00007818 : SOUTH AFRICA South Cape - Crop spraying from a light plane.
00007817 : RWANDA - A precious clean water supply.
00007816 : ANGOLA - Theatre group performing a landmine-awareness show in a village.
00007815 : ANGOLA Malanje - Landmine victims.
00007814 : ANGOLA - Mine awareness class for village school children.
00007813 : ANGOLA - Landmine victim.
00007812 : CHINA Yangtze river - Three Gorges Dam project.
00007811 : CHINA Yangtze river - Construction workers on the Three Gorges Dam project.
00007810 : SOMALIA - Severely malnourished child.
00007809 : MAURITANIA Nouakchott - Watering plants in the Ten Souelim nursery.
00007808 : INDIA - Mobile medical clinic visiting an area hit by cholera.
00007807 : JAPAN Tokyo - Panorama of the city.
00007806 : NORTH KOREA Huichon, Chanang Province - A severely malnourished boy is fed high energy milk provided by Unicef.
00007805 : COLOMBIA Tolemaida - Commando troops in training.
00007804 : GAMBIA Kisamajaw - Sewing seed.
00007803 : GAMBIA Kisamajaw - Boy doing his school work at home.
00007802 : GAMBIA Nr. Banjul - Family playing on Fajara beach.
00007801 : GAMBIA Nr. Banjul - Locals working out on Fajara beach.
00007800 : UNITED KINGDOM The Highlands Great Britain UK - Tourist bus struggling to clear a tiny bridge in rural Scotland.
00007799 : CAMBODIA Nr. Battanbang - Searching for landmines at a temple complex.
00007798 : INDIA Mysore - Sleeping man next to a public phone.
00007797 : GAMBIA Banjul - Muslims doing evening prayer.
00007796 : RWANDA - Crowd.
00007795 : AUSTRALIA Perth, Western Australia - Litter bin for aluminium cans in Kings Park.
00007794 : BANGLADESH - Young brick factory worker.
00007793 : PAKISTAN Karachi - The main drainage creek for the Mansoor area, filled with sewage and rubbish and surrounded by homes.
00007792 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Children playing in the Pasig river.
00007770 : SOUTH AFRICA - Kids playing in a multi-racial school.
00007768 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Boys doing their homework outside their home in Soweto.
00007761 : CHINA Nr. Guangzhou - Children practice with footballs at the ‘China’s Little Heroes’ private school.
00007760 : FINLAND Oulu - Bertta and Seppo Oikarinen and their 20 children.
00007759 : HONG KONG China - Old man practises Tai Chi as the sun rises over the city.
00007758 : ZAMBIA - Copper mining.
00007757 : PERU Nr. Cuzco - Monthly community meeting. Hannansaya Ccollana.
00007736 : SOUTH AFRICA - Baby being weighed in a health clinic.
00007735 : SOUTH AFRICA - Mobile health team visiting rural communities.
00007714 : LESOTHO - Boy's portrait.
00007713 : LESOTHO - Woman sorting grain.
00007676 : LESOTHO - European girl working in a primary school in her gap year.
00007660 : LESOTHO - Young cattle herder.
00007659 : LESOTHO - Young boy working in wheat fields, helping with the family harvest.
00007654 : LESOTHO - Young boy working in wheat fields, helping with the family harvest.
00007652 : LESOTHO - Rural man preparing food.
00007639 : UGANDA - IDP (internally displaced person) children playing musical instruments made out of basic materials.
00007633 : UGANDA - Karamoja woman grinding grain using a grinding stone.
00007631 : UGANDA - Aids orphan being cared for by her grandfather.
00007626 : UGANDA - Peer educator demonstrating condom use in a school discussion on family planning and AIDS prevention.
00007625 : UGANDA - Peer educators discussing family planning and AIDS prevention.
00007617 : IRAQ Basra - Primary school pupils with the Iraqi flag.
00007615 : IRAQ Baghdad - Poverty-stricken school.
00007614 : IRAQ - Primary school class. Girl examining a globe.
00007612 : IRAQ - A mother looks on approvingly as her daughter is given oral rehydration salts.
00007605 : IRAQ - National Immunisation Day. Mobile health teams from the Red Crescent travel around the country immunising children against polio.
00007597 : CAMEROON - Supplementary feeding programme at a community school for disadvantaged children.
00007584 : NAMIBIA North - Himba elder with granddaughter.
00007583 : VIETNAM - Woman working in a factory making traditional conical Vietnamese hats.
00007582 : SAMOA - Tattooed men. Western Samoa.
00007581 : SAMOA - Tattooed man. Tatau is the origin of tattoo. Western Samoa.
00007580 : SAMOA - Tattooed men. Western Samoa.
00007579 : INDIA Pushkar - Rajasthani dancing girl.
00007578 : INDIA Allahabad - Kali baba, holy man at the Kumbh Mela festival.
00007577 : INDIA Allahabad - Ek Bahu Baba, holy man at the Kumbh Mela festival.He has been holding his arm up in the air for 27 years.
00007576 : INDIA Rajasthan - Potter’s daughter.
00007575 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Veiled woman posing on a cardboard motorbike in a photographer’s studio.
00007574 : NAMIBIA North - Himba woman smoking traditional pipe.
00007573 : NAMIBIA North - Himba girl.
00007572 : NAMIBIA - Himba girl.
00007571 : TANZANIA - Masai man using a box of Tic-Tacs to stretch his earlobe.
00007570 : TANZANIA North - Masai girls at ceremony.
00007569 : TANZANIA - Masai women at church.
00007568 : AUSTRALIA - Wongi Aboriginal tribe. Boy with spears & woomera.
00007567 : AUSTRALIA West - Boy eating a witchety grub in Coonana Aboriginal community.
00007566 : AUSTRALIA West - Coonana Aboriginal community.
00007492 : MALI - Kids listening to the radio.
00007491 : CUBA - Revellers dancing.
00007490 : KENYA Nairobi - Men with their children watching an acrobatic display at the horseracing.
00007489 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza - Al Fatah militia men.
00007488 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza - Graffiti depicting Yasser Arafat and Abu Jihad (who was killed by the Israeli Command in Tunis) outside the headquarters of Fatah.
00007487 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza - Al Fatah militia men.
00007486 : MALAWI - Villagers walking along a dusty road.
00007485 : RWANDA - US food aid arrives in a refugee camp.
00007484 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Beggar in the morning rush hour.
00007483 : BOTSWANA - Maize.
00007482 : BOTSWANA - Groundnuts.
00007481 : BURKINA FASO - Hairdressing.
00007480 : SIERRA LEONE Port Loko - Man with bag of Le. 50,000. (approximately $250).
00007479 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Mothers breast-feeding their newborn babies in the ‘feeding room’ of a maternity hospital.
00007478 : AFGHANISTAN - British nurse, working for the NGO Merlin, measuring a baby.
00007477 : LEBANON - Elderly Bedouin woman with tattooed face.
00007476 : SUDAN South - Deng Ding (16), a fighter with the Mainstream Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), in Kongor on the upper Nile. His father was killed by the SPLA United faction, and the family's cattle stolen. Three of his brothers and sisters have since died of starvation.
00007474 : NAMIBIA Orupembe - A disabled Himaba man, victim of a landmine.
00007472 : BULGARIA Sofia - Female tram driver.
00007471 : BOLIVIA Cocacabana - A friendly game of football on Easter weekend. Bolivians from El Acto and La Paz combine the pilgrimage to the country's most important religious site with a holiday on the 'beaches' of Lake Titicaca (which have an altitude of 3800m).
00007470 : CHINA Yunnan Province - An American limousine passes a beggar on the street in Kunming.
00007469 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Sarajevo - A Roma gypsy child busking on the street with his accordion.
00007468 : ZIMBABWE - Woman working on her office computer.
00007467 : COLOMBIA Uraba Province - An eclectic mix of VIPs watching an army parade in Apartado. Claudia Velaquez Angel, Miss Colombia 1996, appears to get more autograph requests than the army's supreme commander, General Manuel Jose Bonnet, who is sitting next to her.
00007466 : ISRAEL Gaza City, Palestine - Palestinian women mourning another 'martyr'.
00007465 : ISRAEL West Bank, Palestine - A Palestinian woman kisses her dead relative as his body is paraded in Sam’oa.
00007464 : BRAZIL Paranapanema - Movimento Sem Terra: land occupation by landless peasants. A man returns from hoeing a field in Fazenda Santa Rita.
00007463 : ECUADOR Quito - Riot police on the streets after the January 2000 peasant uprising.
00007462 : VIETNAM Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) - Young homeless boy sleeping on the street in the centre of the city.
00007461 : ETHIOPIA Debre Birhan - Women participating in a food-for-work project, shifting rubble to build a new road.
00007460 : GUATEMALA City - Street kids Elida and Loreena sniffing solvents on a park bench. They have been homeless for three years. Loreena is pregnant.
00007459 : SOMALILAND - Woman who had previously been displaced, but has now returned home and opened a small shop.
00007458 : SRI LANKA Jaffna - Tamil Tigress.
00007457 : SUDAN South - Young Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier from the Machar faction.
00007456 : SOMALILAND - Young girl twisting chewed bark fibres from the Galool tree to make string.
00007455 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Tuzla region - An elderly farmer in his field in the village of Alkovici, which was totally destroyed during the war. Now, with the help of Swedish NGOs who have provided building materials and seeds, most villagers have returned to rebuild their farms.
00007454 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Very young seamstress working in a textile factory producing goods for export to Europe. Near the upper class suburb of Gulshan.
00007453 : UGANDA Nr. Mbarara - Woman carrying Matoke, green bananas, one of the staple foods of the south-west of the country.
00007452 : YUGOSLAVIA Serbia - Bringing in the hay.
00007451 : MEXICO Chiapas - Zapatista supporters demonstrate in San Cristobal de las Casas to demand the implementation of the San Andres peace accords.
00007450 : CHINA Yunnan Province - Playing ‘Mora’, a hand game similar to 'stone/paper/scissors', at a funeral feast.
00007449 : INDIA Harayana - Child labourer breaking stones.
00007448 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - The Wailing Wall.
00007447 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza - Fatah Day celebration - always a good excuse to dress up.
00007446 : ISRAEL - Intifada: stone-throwing and screaming.
00007445 : ISRAEL - A member of the PFLP (Habbash Radical Group), known as one of the best stone throwers, lies dead on the street. The Israeli soldiers who shot him in the head from close range, look on.
00007444 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza Strip - Waterfront landscape.
00007443 : ISRAEL (PALESTINE) Gaza - Hamas gunmen parading through the streets.
00007442 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital. Oprea is smoking a cigarette, a rare pleasure.
00007441 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital celebrating New Year with a party. Marcel, the young boy, has Downs Syndrome and is a new patient. He was found at night in a train station.
00007440 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Bandi and Moldavia, patients in a psychiatric hospital, doing their morning exercises.
00007439 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital. Georgi lighting a rare and precious cigarette.
00007438 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital dancing during a party to celebrate New Year.
00007437 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital. In the past patients had to share beds because of a lack of resources, now some patients prefer to share a bed even though there are enough to go around.
00007436 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital playing with a ball during therapy sessions.
00007435 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital. A shortage of staff means that there is not much possibility for therapy and the patients are often bored.
00007434 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Gomez, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, looks through a hole in the door.
00007433 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital. A shortage of staff means the patients are left alone much of the time.
00007432 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital. Smoking a cigarette is a rare pleasure amidst the boredom.
00007431 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Beni, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, is allowed to make a rare visit to the weekly market. He likes the music from the tape stall and comes nearer to listen carefully.
00007430 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - The patients of a psychiatric hospital. Many are lonely and look for affection among the other patients.
00007429 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - The patients of a psychiatric hospital dancing during their New Year Party.
00007428 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Television is the only recreation for the patients of a psychiatric hospital.
00007427 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital warming themselves by the stove.
00007426 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Beni, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, is very religious. On Sunday he is given permission to go to the Orthodox celebration in the village church.
00007425 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Kostel, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, visiting the grave of his friend Petrovich, who died last year.
00007424 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital. In the past bed shortages meant that patients had to share with someone else. Today some patients prefer to share even though there are enough to go round.
00007423 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital warming themselves by the stove.
00007422 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - The patients in a psychiatric hospital wake up, help each other to wash, dress and clean the room.
00007421 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Patients in a psychiatric hospital waving through the bars on the window.
00007420 : ROMANIA Gheja, Transylvania - Beni, a patient in a psychiatric hospital, is deeply religious. He is allowed out to visit the Orthodox celebration in the village church.
00007419 : IVORY COAST Abidjan - Playing 'babyfoot' - table football - on the street.
00007418 : ETHIOPIA Shashamanne - Noel Dyer, Rastafarian pioneer (dressed by Nike).
00007417 : ETHIOPIA Awash - Girls laughing in a Bunabeit (coffee house).
00007416 : ETHIOPIA Shewa - Harvesting grain in Akaki District.
00007415 : ETHIOPIA Shewa - Harvesting grain in Akaki District.
00007414 : ERITREA Massawa - Grain being unloaded in the old port.
00007413 : ERITREA Asmara - The Asmara textile factory is the largest industrial employer in the country with about 2000 workers. Production is mainly for the local market with some small scale export to Europe. Founded by an Italian in 1950, the company was nationalised by Ethiopia but is soon to be reprivatised.
00007412 : ERITREA Asmara - The Asmara textile factory is the largest industrial employer in the country with about 2000 workers. Production is mainly for the local market with some small scale export to Europe. Founded by an Italian in 1950, the company was nationalised by Ethiopia but is soon to be reprivatised.
00007411 : ERITREA Asmara - The Asmara textile factory is the largest industrial employer in the country with about 2000 workers. Production is mainly for the local market with some small scale export to Europe. Founded by an Italian in 1950, the company was nationalised by Ethiopia but is soon to be reprivatised.
00007410 : ERITREA - President Issayas Afewerki.
00007409 : ERITREA Keih Kewhi - A Saho girl in this village about 100km from Asmara. The Saho are an indigenous Muslim tribe.
00007408 : ERITREA Keren - Post office in the centre of Keren, the third largest city in the country.
00007407 : ERITREA Tareshi - So-called 'downstream cultivation': in the past this area was only cultivated after the rainy season, but now it can be all year round after the LWF built a dam to collect rain water. A man fetches water from the dam's overflow for his potato and vegetable crops.
00007406 : ERITREA Tareshi - So-called 'downstream cultivation': in the past this area was only cultivated after the rainy season, but now it can be all year round after the LWF built a dam to collect rain water. A man fetches water from the dam's overflow for his potato and vegetable crops.
00007405 : ERITREA Keren region - A farmworker at the Elabered Estate, the country's largest horticultural farm and the biggest employer in the region with 600 workers. It produces citrus fruits, vegetables, dairy products and pork. It was recently privatised after 30 years of neglect.
00007404 : IVORY COAST Abidjan - View of downtown Abidjan.
00007403 : IVORY COAST Abidjan - Women carrying children and heavy loads.
00007402 : IVORY COAST Abidjan - City centre.
00007401 : IVORY COAST Abidjan - City centre.
00007400 : IVORY COAST Abidjan - Packed city bus.
00007399 : IVORY COAST Abidjan - Bus in the city centre.
00007398 : ETHIOPIA Makele - Distribution of Australian food aid.
00007397 : MALAWI - Digging a ditch for the installation of new telephone lines.
00007396 : MALAWI - Businessman on his mobile phone in the supermarket.
00007395 : MALAWI - A man using the only telephone in town.
00007394 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Businessman reading the paper.
00007393 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Businessmen.
00007392 : ETHIOPIA Illubabor Province - Anuak woman breastfeeding her child in the town of Gambela.
00007391 : AUSTRALIA West - Aboriginal children performing acrobatics in the Western desert.
00007390 : RUSSIA Tjeljabinsk - The industrial landscape of the outskirts of the city, which is a centre for heavy industry and is home to about one and a half million people.
00007389 : RUSSIA Bashkortostan - Small garden plots and the Ufa petrol refinery. Industrial pollution and a phenol disaster have poisoned the soil, but the people have no other option than to eat the crops they grow here. Near Novi Tscherkassi.
00007388 : RUSSIA Tjeljabinsk - The industrial landscape of the outskirts of the city, which is a centre for heavy industry and is home to about one and a half million people.
00007387 : RUSSIA Bashkortostan - Local villagers with small garden plots close to the Ufa petrol refinery. The soil has been poisoned over the years by industrial pollution and a phenol disaster, but the people have no choice but to eat the food they produce here. Near Novi Tscherkassi.
00007386 : RUSSIA Bashkortostan - Family living in cramped conditions in Ufa.
00007385 : RUSSIA Upper Volga - Svetlana Malinina and her children outside their home in Abramovo, in the Kostroma region.
00007384 : RUSSIA Chechnya - Lydia Andreevna, from Novo-Cheboksary in the Urals, in the Chechen schoolhouse where she has lived for four months. She abandoned her job and home to come and search for her son Vallodiod, a conscript missing in action, but receives no help from the Russian government.
00007383 : RUSSIA Chechnya - Russian soldiers wearing gas masks examine a mass grave to look for their fallen comrades. Countless unidentified bodies, the majority civilians, were dumped here after the battle for Grozny.
00007382 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - Rue du Quai, the commercial heart of the city. The sewer system is completely clogged.
00007350 : LAOS Boloven Highlands - Freshly harvested coffee.
00007317 : IRAN Isfahan - Women in Imam Square looking to the skies during the solar eclipse of August 1999.
00007263 : BANGLADESH Pagla Ghat - Shehnaz (12) breaks bricks with her mother. Between them, they earn about Taka 40 per day (US 80 cents). Her father left when she was 3. Her mother pays Taka 200 a month to send her brother to school but cannot afford to send Shehnaz as well.
00007262 : SOMALIA Gedo Province - Feeding centre run by Care Australia in the so-called Italian Village near Bardera. Malnourished children waiting for their Unimix, an enriched porridge made from beans, maize flour, sugar and oil.
00007261 : URUGUAY Montevideo - Mother and daughter holding hands in a small private home for elderly people.
00007260 : SOMALIA Central - A woman winnowing sand to look for edible wild seeds.
00007259 : SOMALIA - Feeding centre on the west bank of the Shibele river.
00007258 : MALI Jenne - Women walking to the weekly market.
00007257 : CHINA Xinjiang Province - Chinese 'Han' immigrant and local Uighur man on the street in Urumqi.
00007256 : AFGHANISTAN North-east - UN/WHO-sponsored immunisation programme in Faizabad: nurses wearing burqas set off with 'cold box' flasks of polio vaccine.
00007255 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - Women wearing burqas waiting for food aid at a Red Cross distribution centre. War widows and the handicapped receive food parcels twice a week.
00007254 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - War widows wearing burqas wait for food parcels at a Red Cross aid distribution centre, shortly after the Taliban takeover of the city.
00007253 : AFGHANISTAN Pul-e-Khumri - Ethnically Tajik internally displaced persons (IDPs) escape across the Hindu Kush fleeing the Taliban onslaught.
00007252 : SOMALIA Bay Province - Feeding centre in Gof Gaddud run by GOAL, an Irish NGO. Malnourished children waiting for their Unimix, an enriched porridge made from beans, maize flour, sugar and oil.
00007251 : SOMALIA Gedo Province - Malnourished boy in the so-called Italian Village. The town of Bardera is now surrounded by camps containing about 210,000 displaced people. Aid does arrive, but only by air and not in sufficient quantities.
00007250 : SOMALIA Bay Province - Feeding centre in Gof Gaddud run by GOAL, an Irish NGO. A girl wears her empty bowl as a hat as she waits for her Unimix, an enriched porridge made from beans, maize flour, sugar and oil.
00007249 : POLAND Warsaw - A group of gypsies from Romania squatting in a house without water, electricity or gas in a Warsaw suburb.
00007248 : POLAND Warsaw - A group of gypsies from Romania squatting in a house without water, electricity and gas in a suburb of Warsaw.
00007247 : MALAWI - Father cuddling his newly born baby.
00007246 : MALAWI - Mealtime in an orphanage.
00007245 : MALAWI - Happy farmer.
00007244 : CZECH REPUBLIC - Church in front of polluting factory.
00007243 : UGANDA Kaabong, Karamoja - Karamojong women unloading bricks they have made and fired as part of a World Food Programme 'food for work' scheme. They are constructing premises for training other women in small trades.
00007242 : UGANDA Kampala - Namirembe Nursery School is run by the church. Of the 112 children between the ages of 3 and 6, about a quarter are AIDS orphans.
00007241 : BANGLADESH Rangunia - Fishing in an irrigation canal in Chittagong Province.
00007240 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - A women's work brigade paid by the Russian federal authorities to sweep the streets of the war-ravaged city centre.
00007239 : BANGLADESH - A peasant woman looks out over land which will be flooded in a few weeks time when the rains come. She refuses to leave, even though her home will be flooded too, for fear of losing her property.
00007238 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Pakistani UN peacekeepers.
00007237 : CAMBODIA Battambang - Young landmine victim undergoing rehabilitation.
00007236 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar - Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, at her home.
00007235 : NAMIBIA Baraka - San Bushmen. Boy from Makiri village. His horse is dying due to the drought.
00007234 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay) - Young beggar buried in the sand on Bombay beach.
00007232 : ISRAEL Jericho - A Palestinian woman learning how to solder in a technical school.
00007231 : TURKEY Istanbul - Veiled women on a city centre street.
00007229 : CUBA - Little boy playing the piano under a mural of Che Guevara playing chess.
00007228 : ECUADOR Pimbaro - Native children playing outside their bilingual school.
00007227 : CHILE Santiago - International Women's Day. These women were attacked with a water cannon during a demonstration against General Pinochet.
00007226 : UNITED KINGDOM Southend, England Great Britain UK - Young joyriders on the promenade.
00007225 : ETHIOPIA Tigre - Woman working in the fields.
00007224 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - Scenes of jubilation at midnight on the 26th April 1994, following the country’s first multi-racial elections, as the old national flag is taken down and the new one put up.
00007223 : ANGOLA Huila Province - IDPs milling maize to make flour in Lufinda camp.
00007222 : ANGOLA Zambeque - Fish cut open to be dried and smoked.
00007221 : MOZAMBIQUE Zambezia Province - Hercules aeroplane about to take off from the Brazilian UN military base at Mocuba.
00007220 : SOMALILAND Nr. Berbera - Armed SAM missiles on launch beds hidden in scrub land.
00007219 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - Woman taking off her burqa. (Part two of two)
00007218 : AFGHANISTAN Kandahar - Women wearing a burqa. (Part one of two)
00007217 : MOZAMBIQUE Manica Province - Children picking cotton in the fields near Chimoio.
00007216 : YEMEN Sana'a - Pregnant woman receiving a tetanus jab at a health centre.
00007215 : GAMBIA Sarakunda - Community micro credit union members counting loan money.
00007214 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - An Imam leads Friday prayers outside Al Aqsa Mosque.
00007213 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Equateur Province - Boy on the deck of a commercial barge on the Congo River. He is holding a 20,000 Zaire bank note - the old currency - featuring the face of former President Mobutu Sese Soko. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00007212 : HAITI Port-au-Prince - A swimming pig in Cite Soleil, the city's biggest slum.
00007211 : JAMAICA Kingston - Tivoli Gardens, evening of an election day. JLP supporters, afraid of PNP violence, had erected road blocks which were then cleared by the Jamaican Defence Force.
00007210 : RWANDA - Victims of a roadside massacre, during the 1994 genocide.
00007209 : AFGHANISTAN - Fighters loyal to the late Ahmed Shah Massoud at the front line. A soldier prays on the ground next to his tank.
00007208 : KENYA North - 'Operation Life Line': Store of United Nations food aid in Lokichokio bound for Southern Sudan.
00007207 : AFGHANISTAN Kabul - War widows with their Martyr's certificates. There are over 35,000 war widows in Kabul. (Just after Taliban takeover of Kabul)
00007206 : SUDAN South - Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) troops pass by the skulls of government soldiers on the road near Kapoeta.
00007205 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - A malnourished child in the arms of his elder brother. The marks on his back show where he was run over by a bicycle or rickshaw in the street.
00007204 : ETHIOPIA Wollega Province - School girl in Nekemte doing her arithmetic.
00007203 : INDIA Gujarat - Spraying a field of mustard rape near Nirona.
00007202 : TANZANIA Arusha Province - Women working for the Tanzanian Forest Ministry cultivating pine plants in a tree nursery in Moshi District on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. New resistant species are being developed to replace cypress trees killed by disease.
00007201 : TANZANIA Ngara District - A Tanzanian Red Cross team sterilising latrines in the Benaco camp for Rwandan Hutu refugees fleeing the aftermath of the genocide. This and surrounding camps, which are managed by the TRC with help from the UNHCR, are home to about 350,000 refugees.
00007200 : ERITREA Tsorona - The skeleton of an Ethiopian soldier killed during a battle on the Tsorona front line in Spring 1999. It is estimated that 10,000 Ethiopian soldiers were killed in three days.
00007199 : ETHIOPIA Shoa Province - Donkeys carrying tef (teff), a grass-like plant which is Ethiopia's favourite cereal. Its grains are used to make injera, a soft flat bread.
00007198 : SOMALIA Gedo Province - A starving boy waits for his portion of Unimix at the CARE-Australia feeding centre in the so-called Italian Village outside Bardera.
00007197 : TANZANIA Ngara District - Exhausted new arrivals in the Benaco camp for Rwandan Hutu refugees fleeing the aftermath of the genocide. This and surrounding camps were home to about 350,000 refugees.
00007196 : TANZANIA Ngara District - A Hutu boy with a water can in the Benaco camp for Rwandan refugees fleeing the aftermath of the genocide. This and surrounding camps were home to about 350,000 refugees.
00007195 : INDIA Kolkata (Calcutta) West Bengal - Homeless man asleep.
00007194 : INDIA Andra Pradesh - Child labourer carrying limestone to the top of a limekiln in Dronachellam. About 80% of the 2000 people employed at the kilns are children, some as young as 6. The children are paid 15 rupees a day, the same as women, and have to endure pollution from the dust and coal fumes.
00007193 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Very young seamstress in a textile factory producing goods for export to Europe. Near the upper class suburb of Gulshan.
00007183 : IRAN Tehran - Anti-American mural on the side of a building.
00007148 : IRAN Yazd - Women walking in the city.
00007075 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Cleaners outside the parliament building.
00007054 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Pro-Israeli ‘Women in Green’ demonstration. Poster image of Yasser Arafat.
00007053 : ISRAEL Bethlehem - Palestinian woman praying in her workplace.
00007052 : ISRAEL Bethlehem - Palestinian women in the market.
00007051 : ISRAEL Gaza, Palestine - Technical school for young Palestinians.
00007050 : ISRAEL Gaza, Palestine - Palestinian fishermen.
00007049 : ISRAEL Gaza, Palestine - Palestinian farmer ploughing his land.
00007048 : ISRAEL Gaza, Palestine - Palestinian woman spinning wool.
00007047 : ISRAEL Palestine - Palestinian woman.
00007046 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Troops patrolling the Old Town.
00007045 : ISRAEL West Bank, Palestine - Biology class in girls' school.
00007044 : ISRAEL West Bank, Palestine - Biology class at girls' school.
00007043 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - IDF border police remonstrating with school kids in the East of the city.
00007042 : ISRAEL Gaza City, Palestine - Bicycles are piled high during prayers at Gaza Mosque.
00007041 : ISRAEL Gaza, Palestine - Tear gas is fired during clashes in Jabalya camp.
00007040 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Prayer at the Wailing Wall.
00007039 : ISRAEL Gaza, Palestine - Muslims doing their Friday dawn prayers.
00007038 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Two Palestinian youths with rocks in their hands and their fingers dipped in the blood of one of their friends killled by IDF gunfire. Lion's Gate, Old City.
00007037 : ISRAEL Rafiah, Palestine - A crowd of flag-waving youths waiting at the border with Egypt for the return of the PLA.
00007036 : ISRAEL West Bank, Palestine - Palestinian (PFLP) rally at Kafr Ni’ma.
00007035 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Three boys reading the Koran in a madrassah (Islamic school). Lal Bagh, Old Dhaka.
00007034 : BANGLADESH Mahadpur - A barber and his faithful customer.
00007033 : BANGLADESH North East - A woman from the Kashi ethnic minority picking tea on a plantation near Srimangal.
00007032 : BANGLADESH North East - A tea worker on a plantation near Srimangal.
00007031 : BANGLADESH Rangpur Province - Potter at work in Kurigram District.
00007030 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - A man is precariously poised as he connects power lines in Old Dhaka.
00007029 : BANGLADESH Savar District - Boy with a sickle.
00007028 : BANGLADESH North East - Boy with roofing grass in Srimangal.
00007027 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Evening traffic in Ghulistan.
00007026 : BANGLADESH Rangpur Province - Rice husking in Kurigram District. An income generation program for landless peasants run by a local NGO, the Rangpur/Dinajpur Rural Service.
00007025 : BANGLADESH Chittagong Province - Planting rice in a field near Rangunia.
00007024 : BANGLADESH West - Woman cooking on a stove half-submerged in the ground, a local method which saves firewood.
00007023 : BANGLADESH East - Elderly farmer ploughing his field near Comilla before the monsoon season.
00007022 : BANGLADESH Madaripur - Road construction.
00007021 : BANGLADESH Sylhet Province - A woman tea worker in Srimangal, one of a community of Indians brought to the area from Orissa during British rule.
00007020 : BANGLADESH Chittagong - Worker in a Saab circuit board factory.
00007019 : BANGLADESH Narayanganj - Female stonecrushers in a town to the south of Dhaka.
00007018 : BANGLADESH Chittagong Province - Woman with dishes at the village pond, Rangunia district.
00007017 : BANGLADESH North East - Tipra women near Srimangal. The Tipra or Tripura are an ethnic minority in Bangladesh but the dominant tribe in the Indian state of Tripura.
00007016 : BANGLADESH Khulna Division - Boatmen in the morning fog near the Sundarbans.
00007015 : BANGLADESH Dhaka - Street typewriting service, downtown.
00007014 : BANGLADESH - Fishing instead of farming: good rice-growing land deliberately flooded by prawn farmers.
00007013 : BANGLADESH Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Province - Locals looking for young shrimps to be sold to shrimp cultivators. Cyclone belt.
00007012 : BANGLADESH - Group of Rohingya (Muslim refugees from Burma) women and children newly arrived in Bangladesh having crossed the River Naaf by boat.
00007011 : BANGLADESH - A family outside their flooded home.
00007010 : THAILAND Chiang Rai Province - 12 year old girls in Pang Lao school learning about social groups most at risk from HIV infection.
00007009 : RWANDA Kigali - Mrs Karudenzi, who raises her grandchildren after their parents died of AIDS.
00007008 : MAURITANIA Ijnaoune - Sahara: Villagers securing sand dunes in an attempt to stave of desertification.
00007007 : UNITED KINGDOM England, Great Britain, UK - Biodiversity - array of many different types of pulse.
00007006 : COMOROS - A community radio reporter interviewing a young mother.
00007005 : BANGLADESH - Women and children outside an eye clinic.
00007004 : MONGOLIA - Mother breastfeeding her baby in the open air. A lot of life in summer is lived outside the cramped confines of the gur.
00007003 : INDONESIA Java - Woman using a computer at the British Council offices in Surabaya.
00007001 : ZIMBABWE - Elephants at a water hole, Hwange National Park.
00006998 : ZAMBIA - Children breaking stones to be sold at the roadside.
00006997 : ZAMBIA - Oral polio vaccination for baby at Mtendere immunisation post.
00006996 : SOUTH AFRICA - ‘Puppets against AIDS’ narrator demonstrating condom use.
00006995 : SOMALILAND - Female traditional healer performs blood letting on her patient.
00006994 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA Nr. Zvornik - Rebuilding after the war. LWF-funded agricultural projects in Kovacevici.
00006993 : SIERRA LEONE Freetown - Coca Cola billboard by stand pipe - many houses in the capital still don’t have running water.
00006992 : MAURITANIA Ijnaoune - Women working in village tree nursery. Trees are planted to help stave off desertification on the edge of the Sahara.
00006991 : MAURITANIA Ijnaoune - Sahara: Villagers securing sand dunes in an attempt to stave off desertification.
00006990 : MAURITANIA Ijnaoune - Sahara: Villagers securing sand dunes in an attempt to stave off desertification.
00006989 : MAURITANIA Ijnaoune - Sahara: Villagers securing sand dunes in an attempt to stave off desertification.
00006988 : TANZANIA Zanzibar - Different fruits and spices - enormous diversity of species on the island.
00006987 : GHANA - An outreach family planning team teaching villagers about condom use.
00006986 : SUDAN Darfur - Mother and children displaced by drought.
00006985 : INDONESIA Kalimantan - Iban Dayak head tribesman being trained in Global Positioning Satellite system to help in community mapping.
00006984 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Female science students in a lab at the University of Harare.
00006983 : BOTSWANA Lobatse - Carcasses at the Botswana Meat Company.
00006982 : UNITED KINGDOM Great Britain UK - Animal experiments: rat in laboratory tests.
00006981 : INDONESIA Jakarta - Beggar.
00006979 : RUSSIA Moscow - Woman begging in Red Square.
00006978 : CHINA Tianjin - Man reading newspaper in the back streets.
00006977 : INDIA - Rickshaw beneath satellite TV advertisement.
00006976 : INDONESIA Jakarta - Man offering an iguana for sale, to be used in traditional medicine.
00006975 : INDONESIA Kalimantan - Transmigration camp in deforested area.
00006974 : INDIA - Curious cows outside an internet cafe.
00006973 : TAIWAN Kinmen Island - Huge loudspeakers on this fortified island, just 2 kms from the coast of China. Used to broadcast propaganda across the water. Kinmen suffered some of the heaviest artillery bombarments ever recorded in the 1950s and 60s. 50,000 Taiwanese troops are still stationed on the island which is still a flashpoint when tensions arise between China and Taiwan.
00006972 : PHILIPPINES - Couple at family planning clinic.
00006971 : LAOS - Harvesting opium.
00006970 : LAOS - Hill-tribe woman smoking opium.
00006969 :