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Ivor Prickett exhibited at Visa Pour l’Image in France
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Ivor Prickett exhibited at Visa Pour l’Image in France...

Ivor Prickett‘s recent work from Sudan, a country barely visited by foreign journalists, is going to be exhibited at this ...

Iva Zimova exhibiting in Pilsen, Czechia
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Iva Zimova exhibiting in Pilsen, Czechia...

Iva Zimova is exhibiting her work, covering the war in Ukraine for over two years, in Pilsen’s Old Synagogue from 7th July...

Noriko Hayashi published in Il Reportage magazine, Italy
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Noriko Hayashi published in Il Reportage magazine, Italy...

Noriko Hayashi‘s work on ageing in Japan has been published in Il Reportage magazine in Italy. To view the full story, cli...

Fernando Moleres published in Wired magazine, Italy
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Fernando Moleres published in Wired magazine, Italy...

Jan Banning published in Annabelle magazine, Switzerland
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Jan Banning published in Annabelle magazine, Switzerland...

Jan Banning’s portrait series on victims and perpetrators in Rwanda who have found a way to reconciliation has been publis...

Photobook: “Some Worlds Have Two Suns” by Andrew McConnell, pre-order now at GOST books
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Photobook: “Some Worlds Have Two Suns” by Andrew McConnell, pre-order now at GOST books...

Andrew McConnell‘s multi-year exploration of the steppes of Kazakhstan, home to ancient cultures and the Baikonur Cosmodro...

Desire: The Carl Craig Story premiering at Tribeca Film Festival 2024
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Desire: The Carl Craig Story premiering at Tribeca Film Festival 2024...

Fábio Erdos recently worked a Director of Photography on a new feature length documentary film about music producer Carl Craig....

Markel Redondo published in Rhythms Monthly, Taiwan
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Markel Redondo published in Rhythms Monthly, Taiwan...

Markel Redondo’s photo story about the village of Landais in France where all residents have Alzheimer’s has been pu...

James Rodriguez’s new book Tierra de árboles published
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James Rodriguez’s new book Tierra de árboles published...

Coming at the end of 20 years of photographing Guatemala, James Rodriguez‘s book Tierra de árboles (Land of Trees) is out...

Jan Banning published in Newsweek Japan
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Jan Banning published in Newsweek Japan...

Jan Banning’s portrait series about reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda has been published in Newsweek magazine in Japa...

Tommy Trenchard published in Africa magazine, Italy
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Tommy Trenchard published in Africa magazine, Italy...

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Tommy Trenchard published in Africa magazine, Italy
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Tommy Trenchard published in Africa magazine, Italy...

Tommy Trenchard’s photo story about Rooibos production in South Africa has been published in Africa Magazine. To see the f...

Sven Torfinn published in Africa magazine, Italy
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Sven Torfinn published in Africa magazine, Italy...

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

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Lorenzo Maccotta published in Africa magazine, Italy
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Lorenzo Maccotta published in Africa magazine, Italy...

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Tommy Trenchard published in GEO Hors-Série, France
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Tommy Trenchard published in GEO Hors-Série, France...

Tommy Trenchard published in Geographical Magazine, UK
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Tommy Trenchard published in Geographical Magazine, UK...

Tommy Trenchard’s photo story about Rooibos production in South Africa has been published in Geographical Magazine. To see...

Sean Sutton published on The Guardian webiste
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Sean Sutton published on The Guardian webiste...

Sean Sutton’s recent coverage from war-torn Gaza has been published on the Guardian website. To view the full series, plea...

Jan Banning published in Le Monde, France
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Jan Banning published in Le Monde, France...

Jan Banning‘s portrait series about reconciliation in Rwanda, 30 years after the genocide, has been published by Le Monde ...

Johis Alarcón receives CatchLight Global Fellowship Grant
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Johis Alarcón receives CatchLight Global Fellowship Grant...

Johis Alarcón has been named as one of three recipients of this year’s prestigious CatchLight Global Fellowship grant for...

Mario Heller published in Volkskrant in the Netherlands
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Mario Heller published in Volkskrant in the Netherlands...

Mario Heller’s photo story about the Lady Lowrider Car Club in California has been published in Volkskrant in the Netherla...

Daniel Ochoa de Olza published in Volkskrant in the Netherlands
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Daniel Ochoa de Olza published in Volkskrant in the Netherlands...

Daniel Ochoa de Olza’s work on the spring rite of La Maya has been published in Volkskrant in the Netherlands. To view the...

Daniel Ochoa de Olza published on the Guardian website
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Daniel Ochoa de Olza published on the Guardian website...

Daniel Ochoa de Olza’s work on the spring rite of La Maya has been published on The Guardian website. To view the whole pi...

Nick Hannes published in Volkskrant in the Netherlands
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Nick Hannes published in Volkskrant in the Netherlands...

Nick Hannes’ work on “New Capitals”, which is also available as a book, has been published in Volkskrant in th...

Mario Heller published in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan
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Mario Heller published in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan...

Mario Heller’s photo story about Dubai’s Asian community has been published in Rhythms Monthly magazine in Taiwan. T...

Laurent Weyl published in Le Figaro magazine, France
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Laurent Weyl published in Le Figaro magazine, France...

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

To view the whole story on the danger posed to low-lying islands in Sierra Leone by rising sea levels, please click here.

Alfredo Caliz published in Exit Magazine, Spain
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Alfredo Caliz published in Exit Magazine, Spain...

Alfredo Caliz‘s long-term work on parks around the world has been published in Spanish Exit Magazine . To view more images...

World Press Photo award for Lalo de Almeida
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World Press Photo award for Lalo de Almeida...

Lalo de Almeida has won a World Press Photo award for his work on the ongoing drought in the Amazon in his native Brazil.

Panos photographers win Istanbul Photo Awards
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Panos photographers win Istanbul Photo Awards...

Two Panos photographers – Mads Nissen and Tommy Trenchard – have won awards at this year’s Istanbul Photo Awar...

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...

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...

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
Story

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...

Ghost Riders
Story by James Oatway

Ghost Riders

For almost two years, countries across the world have imposed a host of restrictions on daily life to combat the spread of Covid...

Post Soviet Part I
Story by Robert Wallis

Post Soviet Part I

The Collapse - I first arrived in Moscow in the spring of 1990 after covering the fall of the Berlin Wall, Czechoslovakia\'s Vel...

Iran’s Nuclear Option
Story by Pascal Maitre

Iran’s Nuclear Option

Once more, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Western countries find themselves at an impasse. Over the long history of discord an...

Facial De-recognition
Story by Jenny Matthews

Facial De-recognition

I was shocked when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan again this summer and these images are about Afghan women losing thei...

Home and Away
Story by Robert Wallis

Home and Away

In March 2020 Britain went into national lockdown, along with much of the rest of the world. Together with many other Covid rest...

Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
Story by Panos Pictures

Myanmar’s Spring Revolution

On February 1st 2021 Myanmar\'s Armed Forces brought a decade-long experiment in limited democracy to a sudden and violent end. ...

Smoke and Mirrors
Story by Tommy Trenchard

Smoke and Mirrors

Housed in a historic, Hogwartsesque mansion complete with hidden doorways and creaking staircases, the Cape Town College of Magi...

Polygon
Story by Nick Hannes

Polygon

On 29 August 1949, four years after the Americans dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the Soviets launched \'Operation First Ligh...

Solar Mamas
Story by Justin Jin

Solar Mamas

As the sun sets into the turquoise sea off the coast of Madagascar, giant baobab trees stand silhouetted against glittering star...

Boko Haram’s Deadly Legacy
Story by Sean Sutton

Boko Haram’s Deadly Legacy

Borno State in northeastern Nigeria is at the epicentre of a humanitarian crisis that has seen almost two million people leave t...

One Day in History, 2012 – 2021
Story by Andrea Gjestvang

One Day in History, 2012 – 2021

This summer will mark 10 years since the terrorist attack in Oslo and on Utoya island on July 22, 2011. A total of 77 people wer...

In Search of the Southernmost Tree
Story by Ian Teh

In Search of the Southernmost Tree

The journey wasn\'t for the faint-hearted. Panos photographer Ian Teh and National Geographic journalist Craig Welch, accompanyi...

For Love or Money
Story by Justin Jin

For Love or Money

Gan Xiqi, or Nai Nai as she is known to her tens of thousands of fans, was a minor internet sensation in China, the world\'s mos...

Natalia’s War
Story by Mads Nissen

Natalia’s War

No place are the growing tensions between East and West more violent and more apparent than along the 400 kilometer frontline th...

Daring to Dream
Story by Karla Gachet & Ivan Kashinsky

Daring to Dream

In June 2012, US president Barack Obama announced a radical new policy to deal with one of the country\'s most vexing problems -...

Amazonian Dystopia
Story by Lalo de Almeida

Amazonian Dystopia

The Amazon rainforest is often referred to the "lungs of the earth", absorbing tonnes of carbon dioxide and in turn pr...

Gold rush in the Desert
Story by Pascal Maitre

Gold rush in the Desert

The desert city of Agadez in central Niger, once infamous as an entrepot for migrants and refugees making their way north toward...

Too Young to Work and Wed
Story by Laurent Weyl

Too Young to Work and Wed

Walking for hours under a blazing sun to sell mangoes, spending 12 to 13 hours a day repairing flat tyres or breaking rocks in a...

Work can Wait
Story by GMB Akash

Work can Wait

Recently I have been focusing on the education of impoverished children in Bangladesh and ways to get them into school to have a...

The Seventh Zone
Story by Ben Roberts

The Seventh Zone

I grew up in a village right on the edge of Birmingham. It is the type of nondescript commuter settlement familiar to the majori...

Bats and the Pandemic
Story by Adam Dean

Bats and the Pandemic

One of several theories about the origins of Covid-19 is that it was transmitted from bats to humans, via an intermediary specie...

The Lost Executioner
Story by Nic Dunlop

The Lost Executioner

Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge killed almost two million people, up to a quarter of Cambodia\'s population. Over thirty ...

First Chechen War-25 Years On
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...

Sick Days
Featured Story

Sick Days

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

A Fire Inside
Featured Story

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
Featured Story

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
Featured Story

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
Featured Story

Kazakhstan Time Travel

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

No Place on Earth
Featured Story

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
Featured Story

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
Featured Story

Warm Waters

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

Americans Parade
Featured Story

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
Featured Story

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
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...

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
Featured Story

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
Featured Story

OVER

A photographic meditation from the skies above Poland.

From darkness into Light
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.

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
Featured Story

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...