We are delighted to be partnering with the CCN on their Clean Cooling Media Library project.

At Panos Pictures we have always believed in the power of visual narratives to engage audiences and effect change especially when shining a light on complex and poorly understood issues.  CCN’s intiative will help build capacity in the photography communities in Rwanda and Kenya and empower the students to ask the right questions to tell the stories of cold-chain in their own countries.

The Clean Cooling Media Library is now available for searching and download of high res images through the Panos webiste. We look forward to sharing the work with our media partners and to raising awareness of the importance of cold chain in our increasingly overheated world.

Carrot vendors sprinkle water on their produce to keep it looking fresh and crisp for longer, Rwanda. © Mireille Isimbi/Clean Cooling Network/Panos Pictures

A farmer from Imbarutso za Karembo, Rwanda, transports a sack of freshly harvested vegetables on a bicycle — one of the common modes of food transport used in the area, Ngoma, Rwanda. © Mireille Isimbi/Clean Cooling Network/Panos Pictures

Jane, a market vendor known as a “basket lady,” receives money from customers by selling fresh vegetables she buys in a wholesale market. © Mireille Isimbi/Clean Cooling Network/Panos Pictures

Selling unrefrigerated meat in butcher shops in Kenya poses serious food safety and public health risks, Rwanda. © Pierre Depont/Clean Cooling Netowrk/Panos Pictures