Mads Nissen‘s 8 year project covering the civil war and the historic peace accord which ended over half a century of fighting and violence in Colombia has been published by GOST Books.

The years of conflict between the government army, guerrilla rebels and paramilitary groups has led to the internal displacement of 7 million citizens, leaving visible scars on the landscape and people of Colombia. Mad’s new book – We are Indestructible – provides a portrait of a war-torn country navigating the complexities of newfound peace.

Mads is also currently attending Rencontres d’Arles, the annual photo photo festival in the south of France, where he is signing copies of the book on 6th July 2018 at the GOST Books stand at Cosmos Arles Books.

For more info and to preorder the book please click HERE.

Ramin Mazur‘s photo project about the inmates of Penitentiary Nr. 17, one of Moldova’s toughest prisons, who were taught to act and perform a production of Hamlet within the confines of their prison yard, is being exhibited in Kiev, Ukraine. The exhibition – People, Places, Processes – is sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and will be featuring the work of six other photographers – Carolina Dutca (Moldova), Narek Aleksanyan (Armenia), Dina Oganova & George Gogua (Georgia), Alexander Sayenko (Belarus) and Emine Ziyatdinova (Ukraine) – from across the former Soviet Union.

The exhibition will open on 10th July 2018 at 6.30pm at:

The National Taras Shevchenko Museum
Tarasa Shevchenko Blvd, 12
Kyiv, Ukraine, 01004

To view the full photo story, please click here.

Martin Roemers was invited to speak about his award winning project Metropolis at the Chicago Forum on Global Cities in Chicago, Illinois.

The project took him to numerous megacities – those which have populations over 10 million people – in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe.

Two Panos photographers – Stephan Vanfleteren and Petruț Calinescu – will be giving lectures at this year’s LUMIX Festival for Young Photojournalism in Hanover, Germany.

Petruț’s lecture will take place on Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 7.30pm.
Stephan will be speaking on Saturday, 23rd June at 11am. Both lectures will take place at:

The Auditorium
Design Center (Level 2)
Expo Plaza 2
30539 Hannover

Michael from Panos will also be attending from Friday 22nd until Sunday 24th, doing portfolio reviews on Friday from 1.00 to 3.00pm.

Click here for more information on the festival.

Vlad Sokhin has been interviewed about his ongoing, long-term project Warm Waters looking at the effects of climate change on communities and countries around the Pacific region on Climate Visuals, a Climate Outreach Project.

Click on the image below to read the whole interview.

Patrick Brown was one of three photographers whose work was recognised by prizes at this year’s World Press Photo Awards.

Patrick’s image of bodies of Rohingya refugees laid out on the ground after their boat sank off the coast of Bangladesh won the 1st prize in the General News – Singles category.

Patrick was interviewed by World Press Photo about his work and this winning images. Click on play below to view the interview.

World Press Photo Contest 2018: Patrick Brown on his winning work from World Press Photo on Vimeo.

Panos photographer Hossein Fatemi will be exhibiting his work and giving a workshop on visual storytelling at DIWAN, a cultural centre in Cologne which fosters understanding between Iranians living in Germany and their new compatriots.

The workshop will take place at:

DIWAN e.V.
Wittekind Strasse 10
50939 Köln
Germany

on 16th and 17th June 2018.

To take part in the workshop, please email [email protected].

The annual La Gacilly photo festival, Europe’s largest open-air photo event, is being hosted by the city of Baden in Austria this year and Panos photographer Nyani Quarmyne will be exhibiting Three Miles from the Sea, his impactful study of one Ghanaian village, Totope, which was consumed by rising sea levels.

To view the full set, please click here.

Piotr Małecki‘s short film George and George on the Lake is being shown as part of the If/Then Short Documentary Programme at: