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Reactions to coronavirus around the world...
As the coronavirus crisis intensifies, with over 174,000 diagnosed cases and almost 6,700 deaths worldwide (16 March 2020, 15:30...
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Oslo in Lockdown by Fredrik Naumann...
As in a number of other European countries, Norway’s government has decided to take drastic action to slow the spread of t...
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Ian Teh published in National Geographic Magazine...
Ian Teh’s latest story for National Geographic which looks at the cultivation and trade in black cardamom in the mountains...
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WHO – The Situation Room...
Inside the World Health Organization, from the Strategic Health Operations Centre (SHOC) room to the Governing Body, tensions ar...
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Andrea Gjestvang interviewed on Lensculture...
Andrea Gjestvang has been interviewed by Niko J. Kallianiotis about her project Return, which looks at the asylum seeking proces...
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Tommy Trenchard published in Internazionale magazine in Italy...
Tommy Trenchard’s recent report on the island nation of Comoros and the attempts made by local people to reach the island ...
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Panos photographers nominated for World Press Photo awards 2020...
Three Panos photographers – Ivor Prickett, Matthew Abbott and Frédéric Noy – have been nominated for a total of fo...
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Kieran Dodds speaking about his Hierotopia project at the Ethiopian Community in Britain...
Kieran Dodds will be speaking about Hierotopia, his photo project looking at the significance of Ethiopian church forests, at th...
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Panos photographers win Pictures of the Year (POY) awards...
Panos photographers have won a number of Pictures of the Year (POY) awards in this years 77th edition of the competition. Daily ...
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Rhodri Jones exhibiting at Spazio Lavì! in Bologna, Italy...
Rhodri Jones is exhibiting his ground-breaking work on Albania in the 1990 entitled “Eredità tribale” (“A Tri...
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Elena Chernyshova’s “North East Passage” published in El Mundo in Spain...
Elena Chernyshova’s journey aboard an icebreaker charting the Northeast Passage over the top of Russia has been published ...
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31 January 2020 – Britain leaves the EUPanos photographers’ impressions...
After over three and a half years and much public and political wrangling, Britain is leaving the European Union to the delight ...
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Matthew Abbott published in El País...
Matthew Abbott’s extraordinary work from the bushfires in Australia has been published in Spain’s El País. You can ...
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Matthew Abbott in the L’Obs...
Matthew Abbott’s startling images from the bushfires that have devastated tens of thousands of square kilometres of southe...
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Elena Chernyshova published in Schweizer Illustrierte magazine...
A recent commission from Schweizer Illustrierte, shot by Elena Chenyshova in Moscow, has been published in the magazine.
Exhibitions
Julio Etchart exhibiting at Rich Mix in London...
Julio Etchart followed the trail of two of George Orwell’s great books: ‘Burmese Days’ and ‘Homage to Catalonia’, comb...
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Nyani Quarmyne published in Terra Mater...
Nyani Quarmyne‘s fascinating story about the courageous efforts of local engineers in Georgia’s Tusheti region who a...
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Australian bushfires by Matthew Abbott...
click here for a large edit of images. Devastating bushfires have been ravaging parts of the Australian states of New South Wale...
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Mads Nissen published in Politiken...
Mads Nissen’s recent work on the effect of climate change on glaciers in Chile has been published in the Danish daily Poli...
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Sven Torfinn published in De Morgen...
Sven Torfinn‘s recent work on the Mozambican town of Beira which was severely damaged by Cycline Idai in March 2019 has be...
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Tommy Trenchard’s country profile of Mauritius published in Hungarian GEO Magazine...
Tommy Trenchard expansive country profile of Mauritius, originally commissioned by GEO Magazine in France, has been published in...
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Ian Teh published in Feng Magazine in China...
Ian Teh’s award winning work on the Yellow River in China has been published in Feng Magazine in China. To see the full bo...
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Chris de Bode’s ‘Dreams’ series published on the Guardian website...
Chris de Bode‘s long term photo project which features 58 children from 13 countries talking about their hopes and dreams ...
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Chris de Bode’s ‘Dreams – The Power of Children’ available to buy as a book...
For the past eight years, Chris de Bode has been working on an extraordinary set of images showing children from around the worl...
Exhibitions
Alfredo Cáliz exhibiting at Galerie du Fleuve in Saint-Louis, Senegal...
Alfredo Cáliz is exhibiting his recent work on Saint-Louis in Senegal, produced in collaboration with Spain’s largest dai...
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Ian Teh published in The Walrus magazine...
Ian Teh’s award winning body of work on the Yellow River in China has been published in Canada’s The Walrus magazine...
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Pascal Maitre’s recent work on the baobabs of Madagascar published in Paris Match...
Part of an ongoing photo series indulging Pascal Maitre‘s fascination with the baobab tree that flourishes in Madagascar, ...
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Pascal Maitre’s reportage on the Sahel region published in Paris Match...
Pascal Maitre‘s recent commission for Paris Match, looking at the political instability in the Sahel region, has been publ...
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Stuart Freedman’s ‘The Englishman and the Eel’ published in MARE Magazin...
Stuart Freedman‘s humorous and fond treatment of a London institution that is slowly disappearing has been published in MA...
Story by Kacper Kowalski
Arché
I have been photographing shapes that are appearing on ice throughout the winter. When methane is released from the bottom of a ...
Story by Andrew Esiebo
High Life
Andrew Esiebo, a native of Lagos, Nigeria\'s industrial capital and Africa\'s largest city, has been fascinated by the city\'s f...
Story by Matthew Abbott
Australia Ablaze
No country on earth has confronted a climate-change-induced catastrophe like Australia. The vast continent is in the grip of a d...
Story by Mark Henley
O Christmas Tree
It feels like the end of an era - not just the end of festivities - the trees, so recently adorned and surrounded by presents, n...
Story by Adam Dean
Quicksilver Quarries
On the island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, thousands of artisanal miners have been digging up gold in dangerous, informal mi...
Story by Vlad Sokhin
The Valley of Rubies
Ninety per cent of the world\'s most highly prized rubies, called \'pigeon\'s blood\' for their deep hue and intensity of colour...
Story by Stefan Boness
Chile Desperto! – Chile Awakes!
What began as a protest against a small increase in metro fares in October 2019 has turned into a mass movement for dramatic cha...
Story by Adam Dean
Death in Transit
In 2015, Thailand had the second highest number of road fatalities in the world, second only to war-torn Libya where dying on th...
Story by Ian Willms
Between Liberties
One of the many side effects of the Trump presidency in the United States has been a steep increase in the number of asylum seek...
Story by Nyani Quarmyne
Once Bitten
140,000 people die worldwide from snakebites every year. Another 400,000 are severely injured, often needing to have arms or leg...
Story by Tommy Trenchard
Going, Going, Neon
Scientists first discovered the presence of neon gas in our atmosphere at the end of the 19th century. Tasteless, odourless and ...
Story by Abbie Trayler-Smith
The Big O
Abbie used her own experience of being an overweight teenager to connect with six young men who struggle with their weight. ...
Story by Tommy Trenchard
Echinoderms to the Rescue
In the middle of the night, villagers wade through shallow enclosures 100 metres offshore, looking for small, sausage-like creat...
Story by Andrea Gjestvang
No Man Is An Island
Since the financial crisis in the 1990s, many young women have left the Faroe Islands, a small nation in the North Atlantic Ocea...
Story by Mads Nissen
The Big Melt
In Chile\'s Torres del Paine National Park, the stunning beauty of glacial ice and mountain lakes hides a worrying environmental...
Story by Andrew Testa
State of the Union
After the fifth election in five years - three general elections and two referendums - the UK is no closer to healing the divisi...
Story by Pascal Maitre
Getting their Goat
Every country has its favourite sport. In England, football is the undisputed leader. In India, a huge home audience, running in...
Story by Tommy Trenchard
Oceans Apart
The two islands of Mayotte and Anjouan are separated by only 40 miles of sea. They share same language, faith and ethnicity, and...
Story by Mark Henley
WTO Rules
Or rather it doesnt. The World Trade Organization (OMC in French) is in crisis. While it is supposed to regulate 98% of internat...
Story by Pascal Maitre
Tour du Faso
The Tour du Faso is one of the world\'s great cycle races. It covers 1,306 kilometres across Burkina Faso every October and has ...
Story by Heidi Bradner
First Chechen War-25 Years On
11 December 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the First Chechen War. Though by no means the only conflict to b...
Story by Matthew Abbott
Bush Footy
For Aboriginal communities in Australia\'s Northern Territory, lack of opportunities and extreme isolation are often coupled wit...
Story by Matthew Abbott
Grandfather Crocodile
Crocodiles are sacred in Timor Leste, one of the world\'s youngest and least developed countries which seceded from Indonesia in...
Story by Matthew Abbott
Rock Relief
Uluru, or Ayers Rock as it was previously known, is one of Australia\'s most recognisable landmarks which has featured in the ba...
Story by Chris de Bode, Abbie Trayler-Smith, Nora Lorek
Free From Hunger
There are over 150 million malnourished children in the world today. This contributes to three million child deaths a year. A ne...
Story by Pascal Maitre
Dangerous Desert
The Sahel divides the sands of the Sahara from the tropical forests of Africa, the mainly Arab North from sub-Saharan black Afri...
Story by Hossein Fatemi
Dammed and Erased
Hasankeyf is one of the oldest human settlements in the world, located on the banks of the Tigris River in Turkey. It has been c...
Story by Kieran Dodds
The World’s Shortest Season
Like much about the vast, empty island nation of Greenland, its football league is full of anomalies and a study in resilience. ...
Story by Mary Turner
Surviving Turkey
As of 2019 there are an estimated 3.6 million Syrian refugees living in Turkey. In the city of Gaziantep in the south and near t...
Story by Mark Henley
Brexitland
South Lincolnshire always seemed far away, not least while growing up there. Its mostly fenland, with flat, damp spaces and big ...
Story by Adam Dean
Child Jockeys in Sumbawa
The boy mounted the horse barefoot, with only an ill-fitting Hello Kitty helmet to protect his head and a talisman under his clo...
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Prague Pandemonium
I moved to Prague, the \'Golden City\', in 1994 to study at the Academy of Art. It was a mere five years after the Velvet Revolu...
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Americans Parade
Americans Parade is a parade of Americans; one after the other, from one community to the next, building up a picture of Amer...
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Smart Solutions
Towards a world free of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation, CGIAR is the world's largest global agricultural innov...
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End of the Caliphate
Ivor Prickett covered the fight against ISIS forces across Syria and Iraq between 2016 and 2018, working for the New York Tim...
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Where Love Is Illegal
72 countries around the world have criminal laws against sexual activity by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex p...
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No Place on Earth
An in-depth study of the epic Rohingya refugee crisis and its effect on hundreds of thousands of ordinary people.
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Asmara – Africa’s Modernist Jewel
Asmara is a unique example of early 20th Century modernist architecture, now been elevated to UNESCO World Heritage status
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On Solid Ground
A collaboration between the International Rescue Committee and Panos Pictures
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From darkness into Light
More than 620 million Africans, or two thirds of the population of the continent, have no access to electricity.
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The Parallel State
A glimpse into the opaque world of contemporary Turkish politics and society.
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River Congo – DRC’s Highway 1
The Congo river is the lifeline of a region with few roads or railways.
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Side Effects
The result of years of aerial photography, this is a visual study of the complicated relationship between humans and nature.
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Hidden Lives
The untold story of urban refugees in Burundi, Haiti, Jordan, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Kenya and the USA.
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Belgicum
The result of two decades of work, Belgicum is a unique document about a country in search of a raison d'etre.
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White Rage
Travelling across Europe - from Norway to Italy and France to Russia - Espen Rasmussen and journalist Ronny Berg met and spok...
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Uncertain Tomorrow
The Central African Republic (CAR) has seen more than its fair share of coups and unrest over the five and a half decades...
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Last Stop
Exploring the topography and migrations of London from the vantage point of a bus.
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The Last Colony
For over 40 years Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony in northwestern Africa, and its people, the Sahrawis, have been liv...
