More than 30 million people live in Bangladesh’s coastal communities, where daily life revolves around the sea. Climate change risks changing the sea from a precious source of livelihoods into...
Jan Johannessen’s images of boarded up houses in the Slavic Village neighbourhoods in Cleveland.
Restrepo, the documentary film made by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger about their time with American troops in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, has already won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary...
Southern Bangladesh is made up of a series of low-lying islands and peninsulas that stretch out into the Bay of Bengal. The coastal communities that live here stand on the...
Chalan Beel has no mains electricity, scarce cropland, often severe flooding and few accessible roads. Local NGO Shidhulai Shawnirvar Shangstha has set up community resources on boats, so that life...
Sean Sutton’s book on Laos, per capita the “most bombed country” in the world, was officially launched at the 1st Meeting of States Parties on the Convention banning Cluster Munitions...
“I know very well that I’m out of your life. But the day I die, I now you’ll have to cry..to cry and cry. You may say you never loved...
Drug-fuelled gang violence in Mexico has surged since President Felipe Calderon launched a war on drugs in 2006. There were approximately 6,000 murders linked to organised crime in 2008, despite...
This autumn Belarus president Aleksandr Lukashenko, while visiting a state farm, announced his will to turn the country into a potato producing machine. Lukashenko, as former director of a collective...
The ‘Lost Boys’ of Sudan were over 27,000 boys and young men orphaned or internally displaced during the second civil war in Sudan. Some of these were resettled by aid...
This is the Torrevaldaliga Nord power station in Civitavecchia, near Rome. It is reputed to be the world’s least polluting coal-fired power station. Alfredo D’Amato was given special access to...
On the 1st of December 2010, the Scottish Parliament rejected the End of Life Assistance Bill, a proposal which would have given terminally ill people the right to choose when...
Sven Torfinn was commissioned by The New York Times to shoot stills and video for this feature. Jeffrey Gettleman examines the plans for a road that would bisect Tanzania’s...
Jenny Matthews was commissioned to shoot this video demonstrating the success of Plan Niger’s response to this year’s food crisis. It was commissioned for presentation to Plan’s annual conference, but...
Noorderlicht Projects has published a book alongside its group exhibition Warzone, which features Panos photographers Martin Roemers, Sven Torfinn and Teun Voeten. The pages above show Martin Roemers’ project Kabul...
Edison Peña has been to hell and back and he has the photographs to prove it. These world exclusive pictures taken inside the San Jose mine in Chile give us...