Frédéric Noy wins Visa D’Or award at Visa Pour L’Image
 Giant egrets scavenging for any scraps of tiny dagaa fish left by the women who dry and sell the fish. Bukoba, Tanzania. © Frédéric Noy/Panos
Panos photographer Frédéric Noy has won the prestigious Visa D’Or Award in the Magazine category at the Visa Pour L’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, for his long-term work Lake Victoria, Slowly Dying.
Lake Victoria is the world’s second-largest freshwater lake. In 2018, the governor of Kisumu County in Kenya, professor Anyang’ Nyong’o, stated that if radical action were not taken, whithin 50 years, the lake would be killed by pollution dumped there by humans.
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George Georgiou fundraising to self-publish Americans Parade
 Spectators line the street at a George Washington Day Parade. © George Georgiou/Panos
George Georgiou has launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish his project Americans Parade as a photobook. Looking at the phenomenon of parades, from one community to the next, the project builds up a picture of Americans across the United States in 2016, the year Donald Trump was elected.
Click HERE to support the campaign and pre-order a copy of the book.
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Ivor Prickett exhibiting in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
 An Iraqi Special Operations Forces soldier stands amidst the bombed out ruins of a Saddam Hussein era government building that was occupied by Islamic state fighters. © Ivor Prickett/The New York Times/Panos
Ivor Prickett’s bodies of work End of the Caliphate and Seeking Shelter, the result of two years photographing the often brutal battle against the forces of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, will be exhibited at Amber’s SIDE Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, from 28 September to 15 December. Ivor will also give a talk at the gallery on the opening day of the exhibition.
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Mary Turner published in the New York Times
 Volunteers distribute cakes and other sweet foods at the food bank at St Aidan’s Church, run by the Rev. Gemma Sampson, where life expectancy rates are falling sharply. © Mary Turner/Panos
On assignment for The New York Times, Mary Turner photographed residents of Hartlepool, England, looking at why British life expectancy has stalled.
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Brexitland – Mark Henley
 A heavily damaged Union Jack, the British flag, flying in Boston. © Mark Henley/Panos
In the 2016 referendum on Britain’s position within the EU, the Boston district produced the highest pro-Brexit vote, 75.6% per cent of the popular vote on a high turnout of 77.2%. The neighbouring Fenland district of South Holland, was the second highest district favouring Brexit.
Click HERE to see the story by Mark Henley.
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Child Jockeys in Sumbawa – Adam Dean
 Spectators watch as child jockeys race past the finishing line during a preliminary stage of the ‘Regional Police Chief’s Cup 2019’. © Adam Dean/Panos
On the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, horse racing is deeply rooted in the culture, but the use of children usually aged from 5 to 10 years old as jockeys is controversial. Activists see it as a human right’s issue but supporters claim it is a tradition that offers financial rewards to impoverished families.
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 Former FARC fighters Jairo, Dayana, their daughter Andree Nicole, born after the 2016 peace agreement, and Jairo’s sister Liliana at the farm that was Jairo’s childhood home and where the couple moved after spending some time in a FARC transition camp. © Catalina Martin-Chico/Panos
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