News
Panos photographers shortlisted for Felix Schoeller Photo Awards...
Three Panos photographers – Iva Zimova, Axel Sulzbacher and Markel Redondo – have been shortlisted for Felix Schoell...
Exhibitions
Jan Banning at Cortona on the Move festival, Italy...
Jan Banning is exhibiting his intense and deeply touching portrait series Blood Bonds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda wh...
News
New photo book by Alfredo D’Amato...
Alfredo D’Amato has published a new photo book with 89 Books which consists of family photographs of African migrants and ...
Exhibitions
Mark Henley exhibiting in Jardin des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland...
Mark Henley is ebhiting his long-term project on the UN’s negotiations on nuclear disarmement at the Jardins des Nations i...
Tearsheets
Laurent Weyl published in Le Figaro magazine, France...
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Story by Mario Heller
Brooklyn Skate Moms
The Brooklyn Skate Moms are a group of women who meet at the skate park between taking their kids to school and going to work. W...
Story by Pascal Maitre
Slumdogs and Millionnaires
Mumbai, India\'s commercial capital, is a seething whirlpool of human activity that is bursting at the seams, struggling to sust...
Story by Gilles Sabrie
Green Trains, White Trains
China is a country of superlatives, and its railway network is no exception: it has the fastest, the longest, the highest and th...
Story by Tommy Trenchard
Elephant Whisperers
Each year tens of thousands of tourists visit the Zambian town of Livingstone to see the famous Victoria Falls and view the area...
Story by Alessandro Gandolfi
Mainly on the Plain
The Puszta, a grassy plain in eastern Hungary, is rapidly changing. It is the last European steppe, populated by wild horses...
Story by Noriko Hayashi
No More Midwives
Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Facing years of conflict and humanitarian crisis, loca...
Story by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet
Lucha Libre Extrema
Blood-splattered faces and lacerated backs, every type of flesh wound inflicted with barbed wire and random auto parts. All this...
Story by Christian Sinibaldi
Jump for Joy
Cheerleading has long been associated with American high school movies and glittery sideline entertainment, but it has a rich hi...
Story by Daniel Ochoa de Olza
A Stolen Kiss
This project appears to be a very straightforward concept. A series of photographs of couples kissing in the street, in parks, ...
Story by Selene Magnolia Gatti
Zor
Contemporary Europe has seen a steep increase in social tensions, aggressive politics, hostility towards outsiders and a new wav...
Story by Laurent Weyl
Tightening the Belt and Road
On the ochre plains along the Mekong River the station emerges like a monumental pagoda of glass and steel. Vientiane railway s...
Story by Pascal Maitre
Carbon Trading
Today, 2.5 billion people worldwide depend on charcoal to cook their daily meals. Charcoal has been used as a fuel for over 3...
Story by Kasia Strek
You Shall Carry
On 24th June 2022, the US Supreme Court surprised and shocked many when it upheld the ruling in Dobbs vs Jackson Women\'s Health...
Story by Musuk Nolte
The Lifeless River
\'I am sacrificing myself living here. I have to get out\' says a 47 year old man, one of the few remaining inhabitants in a com...
Story by Simon Townsley
Stuck in Goma – Under Siege
The women had fled into the sprawling camps of Goma hoping they would find safety. As the M23 rebel group has swept his part of ...
Story by Matthew Abbott
Mulletfest
The Beastie Boys, an American hip-hop group from New York, may have coined the term when they described the mullet hairstyle in ...
Story by Selene Magnolia Gatti
Under the Olive Trees
The central Mediterranean has long been Europe\'s deadliest border. In 2023, some 3041 migrants lost their lives or were recorde...
Story by Simon Townsley
The New Scramble for Africa
In Sierra Leone, the Chinese have stepped into the void left by the British, plundering natural resources and threatening liveli...
Story by Musuk Nolte
Seeds of Water
Peru is eighth on the list of countries with the most water, but the capital Lima, where a third of the population live, is loca...
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 ...
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...
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...
Story by Mario Heller
Arctic Dreams
There is a tradition in Barentsburg. When you go to the mainland, you hug a tree because there are none here. The Russian enclav...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
Featured Story
Jaidë – Colombia’s suicide crisis
Suicide levels amongst Colombia's indigenous communities are some of the highest in the world
Featured Story
Women’s bodies as battlefields
Rape as a weapon war in the forgotten conflict between Tigray and Ethiopia
Featured Story
Homo Mobilis
What does a vehicle tell us about status, culture and personal identity.
Featured Story
Land of Marble
The world's most valuable marble has been quarried in Carrara for two thousand years. But is it still sustainable?
Featured Story
Black gold
The income generated by Europe's largest on-shore oil field is overshadowed by the environmental cost.
Featured Story
Event Horizon
“With the beginning of winter, I set out on a journey in search of harmony. Driven by instinct, I ventured farther and fart...
Featured Story
Land of Marble
The world's most valuable marble has been quarried in Carrara for two thousand years. But is it still sustainable?
Featured Story
The River Runs Dry
The worst drought in the Amazon in a century has left communities cut off from the source of their livelihoods
Featured Story
Re-entry
Every three months a space rocket carries three astronauts to the international space station while three return to earth...
Featured Story
Warm Waters
A multi-year project looking at the effects of climate change on communities and environments across the Pacific region. ...
Featured Story
Smart Solutions
Towards a world free of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation, CGIAR is the world's largest global agricultural innov...
Featured Story
Where Love Is Illegal
72 countries around the world have criminal laws against sexual activity by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex p...
Featured Story
On Solid Ground
A collaboration between the International Rescue Committee and Panos Pictures
Featured Story
From darkness into Light
More than 620 million Africans, or two thirds of the population of the continent, have no access to electricity.
Featured Story
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.
Featured Story
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.
