Nowhere is the former pope more adored and venerated than in his native Poland. Poland is one of Europe’s most religious countries with more than 90% of the population declaring...
All of us at Panos Pictures are deeply saddened to hear that our photographer Tim Hetherington was killed on Wednesday, 20 April 2011 in an RPG attack in Misratra, Libya....
Kael Alford is one of seven recipients of the prestigious Knight Luce Fellowship granted by the University of Southern California’s School for Communication and Journalism. She will use her fellowship...
Since the beginning of revolutions in Tunisia and Libya few hundred people a day cross an over hundred kilometer wide strip of the sea dividing Italian Lampedusa island from the...
Markel Redondo meets Central American migrants on their way to the USA. Kidnappings by Mexican gangs is on the increase, and many will suffer severe injury or even death in...
“In Silicon Valley we have the highest concentration of aggressive people in the United States. And it’s a place where all life has been reduced to working in a cubicle...
William Daniels’ work on Kyrgyzstan has been shortlisted for the prestigious Anthropographia Award for Human Rights. Kyrgyz Men take part in a demonstration against President Kurmanbek Bakiev in Bishkek. March...
Ireland is famous for its love of horses and the thoroughbreds raised on its verdant hills. During the boom years, when high-tech companies flocked to the “Celtic Tiger” and the...
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been living and fighting in the Qandil mountains, where Iraq boarders Turkey and Iran, for 26 years. This war against Turkey is for Kurdish...
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...