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Simon Townsley wins UK Picture Editors Guild Award
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Simon Townsley wins UK Picture Editors Guild Award...

Simon Townsley has won a “Fleet Street’s Finest Essay Photographer of the Year” award with his story on Guatem...

Muhammad Fadli published in Public Eye magazine, Switzerland
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Muhammad Fadli published in Public Eye magazine, Switzerland...

Tommy Trenchard in Stern magazine, Germany
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Tommy Trenchard in Stern magazine, Germany...

Tommy Trenchard in New Scientist magazine, UK
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Tommy Trenchard in New Scientist magazine, UK...

Tommy Trenchard in Panorama magazine, Norway
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Tommy Trenchard in Panorama magazine, Norway...

Mads Nissen published in Politiken, Denmark
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Mads Nissen published in Politiken, Denmark...

Chantal Pinzi featured in Off Field magazine
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Chantal Pinzi featured in Off Field magazine...

Chantal Pinzi’s work has been featured in Off Field magazine, covering some of her recent stories including female wrestle...

Michele Cattani in Newsweek magazine, Japan
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Michele Cattani in Newsweek magazine, Japan...

Mario Heller in Newsweek magazine, Japan
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Mario Heller in Newsweek magazine, Japan...

Mario Heller in Courrier International, France
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Mario Heller in Courrier International, France...

Christopher Blanquet in Stern magazine, Germany
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Christopher Blanquet in Stern magazine, Germany...

Nick Hannes in NZZ am Sonntag magazine, Switzerland
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Nick Hannes in NZZ am Sonntag magazine, Switzerland...

Christopher Blanquet in Stern Crime magazine, Germany
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Christopher Blanquet in Stern Crime magazine, Germany...

Jerome Gence in Le Figaro magazine, France
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Jerome Gence in Le Figaro magazine, France...

Mario Heller in Aftenposten innsikt magazine, Norway
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Mario Heller in Aftenposten innsikt magazine, Norway...

Santiago Mesa in GEO magazine, France
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Santiago Mesa in GEO magazine, France...

Mario Heller in Stern magazine, Germany
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Mario Heller in Stern magazine, Germany...

Tommy Trenchard in Newsweek, Japan
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Tommy Trenchard in Newsweek, Japan...

Mario Heller wins Swiss ‘Press Photographer of the Year’ award
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Mario Heller wins Swiss ‘Press Photographer of the Year’ award...

Mario Heller has been named as ‘Press Photographer of the Year’ at this year’s prestigious Swiss Press Photo a...

Santiago Mesa wins 1st prize at Sony World Photography Awards
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Santiago Mesa wins 1st prize at Sony World Photography Awards...

Santiago Mesa has won the first prize in the Documentary Project section at the Sony World Photography Awards with his work on c...

Jelle Krings published in Geographical magazine, UK
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Jelle Krings published in Geographical magazine, UK...

Jelle Krings published in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan
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Jelle Krings published in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan...

Pascal Maitre in Le Figaro magazine, France
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Pascal Maitre in Le Figaro magazine, France...

Tommy Trenchard published in GEO magazine, France
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Tommy Trenchard published in GEO magazine, France...

Jérôme Gence published in Stern magazine, Germany
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Jérôme Gence published in Stern magazine, Germany...

Lalo de Almeida published in Newsweek magazine, Japan
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Lalo de Almeida published in Newsweek magazine, Japan...

Tommy Trenchard published in Stern magazine, Germany
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Tommy Trenchard published in Stern magazine, Germany...

Tommy Trenchard published in Stern magazine, Germany
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Tommy Trenchard published in Stern magazine, Germany...

Martin Roemers exhibiting at Militärhistorisches Museum Berlin-Gatow, Germany
Exhibitions

Martin Roemers exhibiting at Militärhistorisches Museum Berlin-Gatow, Germany...

Martin Roemers is exhibiting his work from Afghanistan in the early 2000s at the Militärhistorisches Museum Berlin-Gatow in Ber...

Martin Roemers exhibiting at Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany
Exhibitions

Martin Roemers exhibiting at Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany...

Martin Roemers is exhibiting his latest long-term project – Homo Mobilis – at Munich’s renowned Deutsches Muse...

Queer China
Story by Alessandro Gandolfi

Queer China

The capital of China\'s LGBTQ+ world, tolerant Chengdu is nicknamed Gaydu: a relaxed and inclusive freeport where people can be ...

Running on Empty
Story by Daniel Desormais

Running on Empty

\"We have absolutely no fuel [oil] and absolutely no diesel,\" announced Cuba\'s energy minister Vicente de la O Levy in May \...

Beyond the Boundary
Story by Tom Shaw

Beyond the Boundary

The rules of cricket are famously incomprehensible to anyone not brought up on the game. Looking though Tom Shaw\'s lens the vie...

A Country Called Dacia
Story by Petrut Calinescu

A Country Called Dacia

Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman recently proposed the concept of \'retrotopia\' - the imagining of an ideal society or utopia ...

Small Country Big Goal
Story by Mario Heller

Small Country Big Goal

18 November 2025, Independence Park, Kingston. 35,000 Jamaicans, two hundred Curacaoans. The tenth minute of stoppage time. Then...

The Last Dolphin Hunters
Story by Matthew Abbott

The Last Dolphin Hunters

The people of Fanalei, a small settlement in the Solomon Islands, are adapting to a life lived on the edge of an encroaching sea...

The Flying Doctors of Lesotho
Story by Tommy Trenchard

The Flying Doctors of Lesotho

In Lesotho, one of the world most mountainous nations, where hundreds of thousands of people living in remote communities lack r...

A city gasps for air
Story by Pascal Maitre

A city gasps for air

Mongolia\'s capital suffocates every winter under a permanent smog. Trapped by dependence on coal, the city gasps for air, air q...

Life in Haiti’s ganglands
Story by Jelle Krings

Life in Haiti’s ganglands

Ption-Ville is the only place in Haiti where life looks normal, merengue music floats from neighbourhood bars, and young men pla...

Dhaka, City of Magic and Mayhem
Story by Pascal Maitre

Dhaka, City of Magic and Mayhem

Dhaka is a massive, low-lying urban expanse that is home to over 10 million people and sits at the confluence of the Meghna and ...

High Life
Story by Pascal Maitre

High Life

At 4,150 metres above sea level El Alto is the highest major city in the world, situated adjacent to La Paz, Bolivia\'s capital....

A Child’s Price
Story by Cinzia Canneri

A Child’s Price

In November 2019 Armenia, a poor former Soviet Republic in the southern Caucasus, was rocked by a major scandal following shocki...

Future Proofing
Story by Lalo de Almeida

Future Proofing

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, 80 kilometres north of the regional capital Manaus, Brazil\'s National Institute of Amazonian Res...

Nusantara – new capital or white elephant?
Story by Nick Hannes

Nusantara – new capital or white elephant?

In 2019, Indonesia\'s former President Joko Widodo announced the relocation of the national capital Jakarta, plagued by overpopu...

Silent Landscapes
Story

Silent Landscapes

This project examines the traces of the nearly three million Sudeten Germans who were expelled from the border areas of Czechosl...

Perpetual Motion
Story by Robin Hammond

Perpetual Motion

The Nomadic Fulani are one of the largest nomadic groups in the world, spread over 20 countries in West and Central African Sahe...

Zama Zama
Story by Tommy Trenchard

Zama Zama

Since the discovery of the first South African diamond in 1867, the country\'s mining industry has generated extraordinary wealt...

Train Connection
Story by Jelle Krings

Train Connection

In June 2025, India\'s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new railway line that for the first time connects New Delhi to...

Mutiny
Story by Merlin Daleman

Mutiny

\"After leaving many years ago I returned to find a country frozen in time. Whilst London had flourished, the communities of the...

Mukbang
Story by Jerome Gence

Mukbang

\"Today, I\'m going to eat three kilograms of pork and noodles.\" In the small, specially fitted-out studio in his brand new...

School Matters
Story by Chris de Bode

School Matters

When can I go back to school? Thats the first question many children across Latin America start their day with. For millions in ...

On the Edge of the Sinkholes
Story by Onur Coban

On the Edge of the Sinkholes

The Karapinar district of Konya, the largest province in Turkey, is one of the driest parts of the country. Over the past two de...

Deadly Dust
Story by Tommy Trenchard

Deadly Dust

For most of the twentieth century, the Zambian town of Kabwe was home to one of the world\'s largest lead mines. During that tim...

Bukele’s Brutal Crackdown
Story by Carlos Barrera

Bukele’s Brutal Crackdown

Over a few days in March 2022, 92 people, including bus drivers, street vendors and shoppers, were killed in El Salvador, victim...

Noxious Nickel
Story by Mas Agung Wilis

Noxious Nickel

Weda Bay on Halmahera, an island in the North Maluku province of Indonesia, now accounts for 17% of global nickel production. In...

A Dog’s Life
Story by Tommy Trenchard

A Dog’s Life

Now common in the U.S. and other parts of the Global North, luxury pet hotels have arrived in South Africa. And the industry is ...

Jaide
Story by Santiago Mesa

Jaide

At 5.8 per 100,000 inhabitants., Colombia has one of the lowest suicide rates but in its indigenous communities it climbs to one...

Women’s Bodies as Battlefields
Story by Cinzia Canneri

Women’s Bodies as Battlefields

As many as 600,000 people are thought to have died in the brutal war between Tigray and Ethiopia from 2020 - 2022, far more than...

The King’s Last Rangers
Story by Alessandro Gandolfi

The King’s Last Rangers

They are one of the oldest groups of rangers in the world, established two centuries ago in Italy\'s Piedmont Alps as gamekeeper...

Deadly Waters
Story by Simon Townsley

Deadly Waters

The Damodar river darkens as it snakes through lush forest, tall maize fields and thatched villages. The rain water that falls o...

Manacillos
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Manacillos

Celebrating peace, resilience and resistance

Iron People
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Iron People

How Ukraine's trains became the country's lifeblood in the war with Russia

Running on empty
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Running on empty

Cuba brought to its knees by the US embargo

Measles surges in Bangladesh
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Measles surges in Bangladesh

Immunisation gap in Bangladesh causes explosion in measles cases

Blood Gold
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Blood Gold

The gold rush in the Sahel is providing an economic lifeline for jihadists and military juntas across the region

The last Dolphin Hunters
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The last Dolphin Hunters

Traditional hunting gives Solomon Islanders a lifeline in their fight against rising sea levels

Perpetual Motion
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Perpetual Motion

One of the world's largest nomadic groups faces threats from climate change and regional conflicts

Train Connection
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Train Connection

The new train to Kashmir is an engineering marvel but is its real purpose a means of controlling the region?

Mutiny
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Mutiny

The UK has one of the starkest economic divides of any country in Europe

Homo Mobilis
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Homo Mobilis

What does a vehicle tell us about status, culture and personal identity.

The River Runs Dry
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The River Runs Dry

The worst drought in the Amazon in a century has left communities cut off from the source of their livelihoods

Re-entry
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Re-entry

Every three months a space rocket carries three astronauts to the international space station while three return to earth...

Warm Waters
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Warm Waters

A multi-year project looking at the effects of climate change on communities and environments across the Pacific region. ...

Dickson
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Dickson

The rise and fall of an African village over 20 years

Smart Solutions
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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...

Where Love Is Illegal
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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...

Traces
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Traces

The effects of China's breakneck industrialisation on the Yellow River

No Stranger Place
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No Stranger Place

Would you open your home to a refugee?

On Solid Ground
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On Solid Ground

A collaboration between the International Rescue Committee and Panos Pictures

OVER
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OVER

A photographic meditation from the skies above Poland.

From darkness into Light
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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.

The Parallel State
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The Parallel State

A glimpse into the opaque world of contemporary Turkish politics and society.

We are Indestructible
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We are Indestructible

Ending one of the world's longest running civil wars.

River Congo – DRC’s Highway 1
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River Congo – DRC’s Highway 1

The Congo river is the lifeline of a region with few roads or railways.

Side Effects
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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.

Disposable Workers
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Disposable Workers

The people feeling the pain of Japan's unforgiving job market

Hidden Lives
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Hidden Lives

The untold story of urban refugees in Burundi, Haiti, Jordan, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Kenya and the USA.

The Last Colony
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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...

#Future of Cities
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#Future of Cities

Future of Cities