Wika Szmit is 74 years old and a pensioner. Three times a week she runs discos at the Bolek club in Warsaw. Produced, edited and shot by Piotr Malecki. Part...


Ekon Association in Warsaw is a recycling plant that provides jobs for people with learning difficulties or mental health issues; who would otherwise find it difficult to get work. When...


Nairobi Lights: circus as a means to build capacity and create a positive impact on people’s lives. Shot and edited by Sven Torfinn for the Vertical Circus and the Sarakasi...


The deadline for Magenta Foundation’s call for submissions to its 8th Flash Forward Emerging Photographers Competition has been extended to 10 January 2012. The competition is open to all photographers...


Ian Willey, 28, had his first experience with hip hop early. “I wrote this great poem once in second grade called Fat Pat. It started like this, “Once there was...


Multimedia presentation by Chris de Bode. Editing by Panos Pictures. Music : Rebel Music


Part of Save the Children’s project “Our Lives”. A glimpse into the lives of UK children growing up in poverty. Photography by Abbie Trayler-Smith Editing by PanosPictures


The Nobel Peace Prize this year has been awarded to three women – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee from Liberia and Tawakkul Karman from Yemen. Espen Rasmussen has portrayed the...


A Sri Lankan MP has claimed that most of the country’s 800,000 Tamils are living as “slaves” in the heavily controlled Northern Province amid daily crimes perpetrated by massive numbers...


Wedged into a great arch of north-eastern India which loops around and almost totally envelops it, Bangladesh sits on the silty and soggy estuaries of two of the world’s largest...


Panos photographer Jon Spaull explored the nocturnal life of the City of London, Britain’s financial centre and economic powerhouse, at night time. Windows on the City after dark from jon...


Long before the current upheavals across the Middle East, Yemen was a constant source of worry for America’s State Department and a font of instability in the region. From a...


Right now Bangladesh is a catastrophe playing out in slow motion.  It may appear far away, but our planet’s ecosystem is an intricate web. Whether it becomes a model for the future or...