Around the world, some 287,000 women die every year from complications during pregnancy or childbirth and according to recent figures 6.6 million children have died before reaching their 5th birthday....
On 1 September 1914 Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died in Cincinnati Zoo. Once the world’s most abundant bird it fell victim to excessive hunting and deforestation within a few...
Long since the days of William Wallace, imortalised and mythologised by Hollywood in 90’s film Braveheart, we ask his possible successors and namesakes to share their views on life, freedom...
“The greatness of his mind is such that he rather chooseth to die than be taken alive: wherein the unicorn and the valiant-minded soldier are alike, which both contemn to...
A three-part documentary based on Shiho Fukada’s portrait series, Japan’s Disposable Workers. The three sections are: Overworked to Suicide After the recession of the 1990s, Japan’s white collar salarymen increasingly...
High on a mountain, three shamans sit cross-legged on a great burial stone, gazing out across a moonlit valley. They are singing, a slow ululation that fades into the predawn...
Panos photographer Kacper Kowalski has won two first prizes at Poland’s national Press Photo Awards, Grand Press Photo. A single from his work on urban China won the First Prize...
Mercy Owiti is a palliative care nurse in Nyeri, Kenya. But caring for patients at the end of life often means more than just pain relief. That’s why the Kenya...
Russia is home to the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic. Driven by injection drug use, it is now becoming generalized. A zero-tolerance policy toward drug use in the country bans harm...
Uganda has a severe HIV epidemic. AIDS is the leading cause of death among adults. Widespread rights violations put some people at a greater risk of HIV—like widows, sex workers,...
A woman visits a gynecologist for a check-up but the office demands she pay a fee for a service that is free. A young child and his parents are never...
Panos photographer Kacper Kowalski has been interviewed about his unique style of aerial photography which has won him numerous awards and plaudits. To view the full interview, click on the...
On Monday 14 April Oleg Klimov: Letters to Myself will be screened at the Frontline Club in London followed by a Q&A. For 12 years, Oleg Klimov documented the disintegration...
Guy Martin has won this year’s Project Launch grant run by CENTER for his work City of Dreams. The grant is presented to an outstanding photographer working on a fine...
A video about violence against women in Zambia produced by Adam Patterson and Sam Strickland for YWCA Zambia. Click HERE to watch the campaign’s TV spot. Editor: Paul Trewartha
Panos photographer Carolyn Drake has been named as one of the ten recipients of the annual Magnum Emergency Fund Grant. The Emergency Fund “enables independent documentary photographers to investigate and...