Pictures of the Year (POY) awards 2026
Six Panos photographers have been recognised for their work at this year’s Pictures of the Year (POY) awards – a contest overseen by the University of Missouri and National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) since 1957. Cinzia Canneri won the World Understanding Award for her groundbreaking work on sexual violence in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Onur Coban won both an Award of Excellence and the First Prize in the Environmental Vision and Science and Natural History Picture Story sections respectively for his work on sinkholes in rural Turkey. Santiago Mesa was a Finalist in the Issue Reporting Picture Story section for his work on coca production in Colombia. Ivan Kashinsky won an Award of Excellence in the Science and Natural History category for his work on the aftermath of the Pacific Palisades fire in California. and another Award of Excellence in the Daily LIfe Picture Story section for his work on ‘Spaghetti Cumbia’, an...
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Selene Magnolia Gatti has been awarded the Gold Prize in the Press/People/Personality category at this year’s Prix de la Photographie Paris for her work on migrants crossing the Mediterranean. For...
Ramin Mazur will be in conversation with photographers Selene Magnolia, Natalia Kepesz and Gesinen Born at the n-ost media hub to talk about the role of documentary photography in the...
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Axel Javier Sulzbacher has won the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2025 with his work on the highly lucrative and murky world of avocado cultivation in Mexico which has been infiltrated...
Lalo de Almeida has been awarded one of five Prix Photo by Terre Solidaire for his ongoing work on the climate crisis in the Brazilian Amazon. The work, along with...
Ivor Prickett was awareded the prestigious Visa d’Or News Roger Thérond Award by Paris Match at this year’s Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan for his work on the Battle for...
Simon Townsley will be speaking about his work alongside numerous other photographers from around the world at this year’s Summit Photo 2025, organised by the Royal Geograhical Society in London,...
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Three Panos photographers – Iva Zimova, Axel Sulzbacher and Markel Redondo – have been shortlisted for Felix Schoeller Photo Awards. Iva’s work on Ukrainian army veterans who have lost limbs...
Alfredo D’Amato has published a new photo book with 89 Books which consists of family photographs of African migrants and atmospheric landscapes from Italy as a meditation on some of...
Two Panos photographers – Tommy Trenchard and Musuk Nolte – have won World Press Photo awards in this year’s contest. Tommy’s story on elephants encroaching on urban environments in Zambia...