Panos photographers win Pictures of the Year (POY) awards

Adam Dean has won both the Award of Excellence as well as the Second Place in the Science and Natural History section for his work on research into the bats of Khao Chong Pran cave in Ratchaburi, Thailand.

Mads Nissen won the Third Place in the Daily Life category for his image of 85 year old Rosa Luiza Lunardi hugging a nurse through a plastic covid curtain in Brazil.