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...
Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper talk to PBS about California Is a Place, their series of documentary short films about the Golden State.
British pubs are closing at an increasing rate. Piotr Malecki met some of the landlords who are struggling to make ends meet.
10 hours a day! Ping Pong Ping Pong Ping Pong Ping Pong. For most of us, table tennis is a game. But for the young Olympic hopefuls at the ICC...
Robin Hammond met some of the women and children who have been sexually assaulted during the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and heard their stories.
Panos Profile photographer Abbie Trayler-Smith has been nominated for the Taylor Wessing portrait prize for her picture of Chelsea, above. The image is from Abbie’s new long-term project on childhood...
Neil Elliot is an industrial painter by trade but his passion is the caber with numerous accolades to his name, claiming the unofficial title of the world’s best.
Stephan Vanfleteren worked with journalist Koen Vidal and Director Ibbe Daniels on this short film, which features Congolese countertenor Serge Kakudji. Based on the book Futur Simple, it presents a...