20 June 2019

Last few places left for the workshop Assigning photography for visual content and campaigns, 26th June, London

A woman stands in a field of onion seed in Oroma Region, Ethiopia, 2016. © Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos/Oxfam

The last few places are available for a one day workshop for charity and NGO staff led by Panos’ director Adrian Evans and photographer Abbie Trayler-Smith at the Photographers’ Gallery in central London on 26 June.

Panos’ industry workshops are aimed at communications, digital and media professionals wanting to explore the methods, opportunities and challenges of working with photography and film in a professional environment.

Book HERE.

Elena Chernyshova exhibiting in La Gacilly, France

Residents mill around in front of high rise residential blocks in Norilsk. © Elena Chernyshova/Panos

Panos photographer Elena Chernyshova is exhibiting her unique reportage on the Arctic Russian city of Norilsk at the La Gacilly Photo Festival in France, until 30 September.

Click HERE for more information.

End of the Caliphate by Ivor Prickett just published by Steidl

Civilians who have remained in west Mosul frantically beg for aid at a distribution point in the Mamun neighbourhood of the city. © Ivor Prickett/New York Times/Panos

Ivor Prickett‘s photobook End of the Caliphate has just been published by Steidl.

The book is the result of months spent on the ground in Iraq and Syria between 2016 and 2018 photographing the battle to defeat ISIS. Working exclusively for the New York Times, Ivor was often embedded with Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish forces as he documented both the fighting and its toll on the civilian population and urban landscape.

Click HERE for more information and to order your copy.

GAZA by Andrew McConnell screening in Bradford, UK

The feature length documentary GAZA, by Panos photographer and filmmaker Andrew McConnell and Garry Keane, will be shown as part of the Refugee Week Finale at Delius Arts & Cultural Centre in Bradford, UK, this Saturday 22 June 2019 from 6pm.

Click HERE for more information.

Publications

Noriko Hayashi interviewed in the Japan Times

A Japanese wife Mitsuko Minagawa 77 holding a portrait of herself and her husband taken in Japan on the wedding day 56 years ago. © Noriko Hayashi/Panos

Before 1945, hundreds of thousands of Koreans were forced to move to Japan to fill its labour needs during its colonial period. However, after World War II and North Korea was established, 93,000 people relocated to North Korea hoping for a better future. 1,800 of them were Japanese women who had married Korean men. Since relocating, these women have been unable to visit their home countries because of political tensions between Japan and North Korea.

Panos photographer Noriko Hayashi met some of them and was interviewed by the Japan Times about the series.

Click HERE to see the feature.

Tommy Trenchard published in 1843 magazine

Vanilla workers sort through bundles of vanilla at the Virginia Dare warehouse in Antsirabe Nord, Madagascar. At the time this image was taken, the warehouse contained roughly five million dollars worth of vanilla. © Tommy Trenchard/Panos

On assignment for The Economist 1843 magazine, Panos photographer Tommy Trenchard travelled to Madagascar with journalist Wendell Steavenson to document the hidden side of the booming vanilla industry.

Click HERE to see the story.

New story: Latinx Power by Karla Gachet and Ivan Kachinsky

Jenny Silva visits Jo Anna Mixpe Ley for her ‘Cuarentena’ in East Los Angeles. This is tradition within Latin women. Forty days after giving birth the new mother closes her birth cycle with a ceremony. This includes a steam bath with the baby in special herbs. © Karla Gachet/Panos

Immigration has been on the top of the political agenda in the United States since Donald Trump became president. Yet amidst this hostile climate, the Latino community is flourishing in the American society.

Click HERE to see the story by Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky.