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Tommy Trenchard published in Delayed Gratification
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Tommy Trenchard published in Delayed Gratification...

Frédéric Noy published in Fotos für die Pressefreiheit 2023
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Frédéric Noy published in Fotos für die Pressefreiheit 2023...

Tommy Trenchard published in Gesund Leben magazine
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Tommy Trenchard published in Gesund Leben magazine...

Tommy Trenchard published in Vi Menn magazine
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Tommy Trenchard published in Vi Menn magazine...

Tommy Trenchard published in Vi Menn magazine
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Tommy Trenchard published in Vi Menn magazine...

Lalo de Almeida published in Vi Menn magazine
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Lalo de Almeida published in Vi Menn magazine...

GMB Akash exhibiting at GEOPOLIS in Brussels, Belgium
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GMB Akash exhibiting at GEOPOLIS in Brussels, Belgium...

GMB Akash will be exhibiting his unique work on child labour across his native Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia together...

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

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

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“Shifting” – Johis Alarcón’s World Press Photo 2023 award winning multimedia
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“Shifting” – Johis Alarcón’s World Press Photo 2023 award winning multimedia...

In her unique multimedia project “Shifting” Johis Alarcón tells the story of Valentina, a 13 year old girl in Ecuad...

Jonas Kako published in Internazionale
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Jonas Kako published in Internazionale...

Ivor Prickett exhibiting at Collezione Maramotti
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Ivor Prickett exhibiting at Collezione Maramotti...

A major retrospective of Ivor Prickett‘s photography, ranging from early work in the Caucasus and the Balkans to a Libya, ...

Pascal Maitre published in Paris Match magazine
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Pascal Maitre published in Paris Match magazine...

Pascal Maitre published in Stern magazine, Germany
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Pascal Maitre published in Stern magazine, Germany...

“Woman Life Freedom” – World Press Photo 2023 Open Format (Asia) winner
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“Woman Life Freedom” – World Press Photo 2023 Open Format (Asia) winner...

Panos photographer Hossein Fatemi, a native of Iran, spent the months after protests erupted over the death in custody of Mahsa ...

Frédéric Noy published in Sette in Italy
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Frédéric Noy published in Sette in Italy...

Frédéric Noy‘s latest project – Alash Orda – looking at contemporary Kazakhstan where he was based for a num...

Kacper Kowalski in conversation with composer Jarosław Kapuscinski
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Kacper Kowalski in conversation with composer Jarosław Kapuscinski...

Kacper Kowalski will be in conversation with Polish composer Jarosław Kapuscinski at the Braun Music Center (Room 102) at Stanf...

Björn Steinz exhibiting at Galerie Reunion in Prague, Czechia
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Björn Steinz exhibiting at Galerie Reunion in Prague, Czechia...

Björn Steinz will be exhibiting his long term work on Žižkov, a district of Prague, at Galerie Reunion in Prague from 21 Apri...

Noriko Hayashi published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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Noriko Hayashi published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung...

Nick Hannes published in Africa magazine
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Nick Hannes published in Africa magazine...

Andrew Esiebo published in Africa magazine
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Andrew Esiebo published in Africa magazine...

Sony World Photography award winners
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Sony World Photography award winners...

Three photographer with Panos Pictures have won awards at this year’s SONY World Photography Awards. Mads Nissen was decor...

Mads Nissen published in Vi Menn magazine in Norway
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Mads Nissen published in Vi Menn magazine in Norway...

Mads Nissen‘s long-term project on the civil war, the peace process and the effect of the cocaine trade on Colombia has be...

Tommy Trenchard published in Vi Menn in Norway
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Tommy Trenchard published in Vi Menn in Norway...

Tommy Trenchard‘s feature on the lives of illegal gold miners in South Africa has been published in Norwegian men’s ...

Marie Claire Taiwan 30th anniversary feature by Panos photographers
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Marie Claire Taiwan 30th anniversary feature by Panos photographers...

8 Panos photographers photographed women in their thirties around the world for the Taiwanese edition of Marie Claire‘s 30...

Jonas Kako published in Newsweek Japan magazine
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Jonas Kako published in Newsweek Japan magazine...

Jonas Kako‘s reportage on the decline of the Colorado River in the US has been published in Newsweek Japan magazine. To se...

Pascal Maitre’s Cairo published in Le Figaro magazine
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Pascal Maitre’s Cairo published in Le Figaro magazine...

Pascal Maitre‘s latest feature on the Egyptian capital has been published in Le Figaro magazine in France.

Nick Hannes published in Newsweek Japan magazine
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Nick Hannes published in Newsweek Japan magazine...

Nick Hannes‘ chapter on Indonesia’s new capital city Nusantara has been published in Newsweek Japan magazine. To vie...

Mads Nissen published in Newsweek Japan magazine
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Mads Nissen published in Newsweek Japan magazine...

Mads Nissen award-winning, multi-year project on the civil war in Colombia and the effect of the cocaine trade on the people and...

Tommy Trenchard published in de Morgen magazine in Belgium
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Tommy Trenchard published in de Morgen magazine in Belgium...

Tommy Trenchard‘s latest piece about the Wildlife Crime Forensics Academy in South Africa has been published in de Morgen ...

Alash Orda
Story by Frederic Noy

Alash Orda

The largest landlocked country on earth, Kazakhstan remains for most foreigners a vast, arid void, somewhere between Russia and ...

Facebook Hill
Story by Petrut Calinescu

Facebook Hill

With a population of just over 10,000, Poienile de sub Munte is the largest village in Romania, most of whose inhabitants are pa...

Greenland Embraces Climate Change
Story by Bradley Secker

Greenland Embraces Climate Change

It\'s the most tranquil and magnificent backdrop to our planet\'s climate catastrophe, and the ramifications for Greenland, as w...

Russian Dreams in the Arctic
Story by Mario Heller

Russian Dreams in the Arctic

There is a tradition in Barentsburg. When you go to the mainland, you hug a tree because there are none here. The Russian enclav...

Father of the Turks
Story by Bradley Secker

Father of the Turks

On 29th October 1923, a modern nation rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first Pr...

Deadly Gold Rush in the Amazon
Story by Lalo de Almeida

Deadly Gold Rush in the Amazon

The Yanomami people are living through an unprecedented crisis due to the invasion of some 20,000 illegal gold miners who have d...

Of Mines and Man
Story by Andrea Gjestvang

Of Mines and Man

Norway, a country of pristine fjords, mountains and endless pine forests, derives 98% of the energy coursing through its grid fr...

Charcoal Children
Story by Kasia Strek

Charcoal Children

Metro Manila is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world. Around a third of its 20 million inhabitants ...

Park Life
Story by Alfredo Caliz

Park Life

\'If we lived in gardens, religion would not have been possible. Its absence has driven us to long for paradise. The space witho...

Empire Z
Story by Anonymous photographer

Empire Z

Over 90% of the Russians were sure that there wouldn\'t be a war with Ukraine. February 24th 2022 was a shock for everyone. ...

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...

The Miracle Train
Story by Tommy Trenchard

The Miracle Train

Since 1994, the Phelophepa train has been travelling around South Africa bringing affordable healthcare to rural communities who...

Ecole des mousses
Story by Laurent Weyl

Ecole des mousses

The Ecole des mousses is France\'s premier naval college that takes in around 240 young men and women every year and trains them...

Queen Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
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Queen Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022

The death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain\'s longest serving monarch and arguably the most famous woman in the world, brought hug...

The Price of Choice
Story by Kasia Strek

The Price of Choice

Around the world more than 160 lives are lost every day due to unsafe and illegal abortions. While 90% occur in developing count...

King of the Butterflies
Story by Pascal Maitre

King of the Butterflies

Every autumn the entire global population of monarch butterflies numbering hundreds of millions descends on a relatively small p...

The Taliban’s Drug Hell
Story by Simon Townsley

The Taliban’s Drug Hell

The dark sea of huddled forms is almost impossible to take in at first. The grimy, bent figures resemble residents of some vast,...

Famine stalks Afghanistan
Story by Simon Townsley

Famine stalks Afghanistan

Long before the gates open, the queue for food already snakes around the block. Under the watchful gaze of patrolling Taliban gu...

Ceuta – Europe in Africa
Story by Pascal Maitre

Ceuta – Europe in Africa

The Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on Morocco\'s Mediterranean coast are a geographic anomaly and a throwback to Spain\'s...

Syrian Nakhba
Story by Bradley Secker

Syrian Nakhba

Over 13 million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes due to the country\'s ongoing civil war. More than half have left ...

From Job to Jungle Warfare
Story by Adam Dean

From Job to Jungle Warfare

After a decade-long experiment with democracy Myanmar\'s army, the Tatmadaw, slammed the door shut on liberalisation and freedom...

The Price of Peace in Afghanistan
Story by Mads Nissen

The Price of Peace in Afghanistan

The chaotic withdrawal of US and allied forces from Afghanistan in August 2021 spelled the end of a hugely expensive, ultimately...

Bilharzia in Zambia
Story by Simon Townsley

Bilharzia in Zambia

Cloaked in white robes, chanting worshippers sink into Zambia\'s Kafue river with arms stretched to the sky as their baptism unf...

Lagos Vibrations
Story by Andrew Esiebo

Lagos Vibrations

Lagos Vibrations offers a snapshot of daily life for ordinary people in Africa\'s most populous city. From its notorious traffic...

Dog Day Afternoon
Story by Nora Lorek

Dog Day Afternoon

Once a month Gothenburg\'s Capitol, a plush art house cinema, opens its doors not just to humans but to their canine friends as ...

I am, Still
Story by Johis Alarcon

I am, Still

This project explores the daily life of the younger generation of indigenous people in Ecuador who are charting a course that is...

Roadtrip through a Climate Crisis
Story by Lalo de Almeida

Roadtrip through a Climate Crisis

Lalo de Almeida spent 21 days travelling across parts of the United States that have been worst affected by extreme weather phen...

What Lies Beneath
Story by Tommy Trenchard

What Lies Beneath

20 years after the end of its bitter, long-running civil war, Angola remains one of the most heavily mined nations on earth. De-...

Climate Conflict Crisis
Story by Sean Sutton

Climate Conflict Crisis

In the world\'s newest country, hope has long been replaced by despair. The flush of optimism that arose in the wake of independ...

The World in a Capsule
Story by Noriko Hayashi

The World in a Capsule

Vending machines are a ubiquitous feature of urban life in Japan. A specific type of outlet, known as gachapon, has been selling...

The Last of the African Penguins
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The Last of the African Penguins

With its tuxedo plumage and clumsy, waddling gait, the African penguin, spheniscus demersus, has long been an iconic presence at...

The City in the Steppe
Story by Nick Hannes

The City in the Steppe

\'Astana is no more, long live Nur-Sultan\' An artificial city in the steppe, to the glory of the eponymous president, where...

Sick Days
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Sick Days

Ian Willms' meditation on two years of covid, lockdowns and social change in Canada

A Fire Inside
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A Fire Inside

Documenting Australia's catastrophic wildfire in the southern winter of 2019 - 2020, the worst recorded in the country's hist...

Amazonian Dystopia
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Amazonian Dystopia

The Amazon, the "lungs of the world", is under threat as never before. A journey across an embattled region.

Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
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Myanmar’s Spring Revolution

The violent return of military rule in Myanmar has brought death and repression back onto the streets of the country.

Kazakhstan Time Travel
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Kazakhstan Time Travel

Mario Heller criss-crossed the country on the 30th anniversary of its independence.

No Place on Earth
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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.

End of the Caliphate
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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...

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. ...

Americans Parade
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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...

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

Asmara – Africa’s Modernist Jewel
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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

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.

Belgicum
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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.

Uncertain Tomorrow
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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...

Last Stop
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Last Stop

Exploring the topography and migrations of London from the vantage point of a bus.

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

In collaboration with the World Photography Organisation (WPO) and Sony's Global Imaging Ambassadors (SGIA), Panos Pictures c...

My Toilet
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My Toilet

Through images and stories from 20 countries, across every continent, a collaboration between Water & Sanitation for the Urba...