Angela Merkel, at the helm of German politics, 2000 – 2021
In September 2021 Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, is due to stand down from her post when the country goes to the polls to elect a new government. Her terms as head of state will be just short of that of her predecessor and mentor, Helmut Kohl, who oversaw the reunification of Germany and held the office for 16 years and 26 days. During her period as Germany’s leader the country, and in many ways the entire European Union, has changed dramatically. From her early roles as General Secretary of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the late 1990s and Chairperson of the party in the early 2000s, she rose through the ranks to become the most powerful woman in the world, overseeing countless challenging situations facing Europe. Born in Hamburg in West Germany in 1954, she moved to East Germany with her parents as an infant and only became...
Ten years after photographing some of the survivors of the devastating terrorist attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Oslo and on the island of Utøya, Andrea Gjestvang has reconnected...
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More than twelve years after xenophobic attacks swept across South Africa’s townships and informal settlements, leaving at least 60 dead and thousands injured, photojournalists James Oatway and Alon Skuy have...
Panos photographer Patrick Brown was given the annual FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo in 2019 for his work on the Rohingya refugee crisis of 2017 when almost 800,000...
Andrew Esiebo has been shortlisted for the Contemporary African Photography Prize (CAP) for his work on Nigerian health workers entitled “Coro Angels” (‘coro’ is colloquial for Coronavirus in Nigeria). To...
Laurent Weyl‘s reportage on the effects of Covid and a severe food crisis on the Central African Republic has been published in Le Figaro Magazine in France. To view the...
During lockdowns over the past year Jenny Matthews created a series of patchworks which incorporate her work over the past twenty years as a documentary photographer concerned with the effects...
Chris de Bode’s reportage “Made by Me”, which portrays garment workers in Myanmar as ‘creators’ and empowered individuals, rather than victims, has won the 1st Prize in the International Documentary...
In May 2020, University College London Hospital (UCLH) invited Panos photographer Tom Pilston to take portraits of staff at the heigh of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Tom, he wanted...
Two Panos photographers – Mads Nissen and Lalo de Almeida – have been nominated for World Press Photo Awards with their work on Covid and the devastating wildfires in the...
Starting in the week of 2nd March 2001, the Afghan Taliban destroyed two monumental statues of Gautama Buddha that had been hewn into the side of a mountain in the...
Adam Dean has won both the Award of Excellence as well as the Second Place in the Science and Natural History section for his work on research into the bats...
Robin Hammond and Chris de Bode are exhibiting at this year’s Xposure International Photography Festival in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates which is taking place between 10 and 13 February 2021....
Elena Chernyshova’s new wide-ranging reportage on the life of the Nenet people, nomadic reindeer herders on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula, has been awarded an Honorable Mention at this year’s UNICEF Photo...
Once the initial confusion of Covid lockdown had passed, I became aware of what I was missing. Pre-Covid-19, I had regularly undertaken photographic road trips. In 2019, I embarked on...
Julio Etchart long term project ‘Imagining Orwell in Three Continents’ has just been published as a photo book by Just Press. Click here to order your copy of the book....