17 October 2019

Catalina Martin-Chico exhibiting in Saguenay, Canada

Former FARC fighters Jairo, Dayana, their daughter Andree Nicole, born after the 2016 peace agreement, and Jairo’s sister Liliana. Puerto Triana, Colombia, 2018. © Catalina Martin-Chico/Panos

Catalina Martin-Chico‘s award-winning work on the lives of former female Colombian FARC guerrilla fighters who are starting new lives as mothers is being exhibited at the ZOOM Photo Festival in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada from 16 October until 10 November 2019.

Click HERE to see the full story.

New stories

Dangerous Desert – Pascal Maitre

A truck loaded with clothes, plastic furniture and electrical appliances arrives at the Agadez customs. Due to the Libyan dinar being unstable and difficult to exchange, Nigerians working in Libya often prefer their pay in the form of goods. © Pascal Maitre/National Geographic/Panos

The Niger desert has been a centre of trade and transit for centuries. Impoverished but relatively stable, the country is surrounded by conflict zones where Islamist terrorist groups are established.

Click HERE to see the story by Pascal Maitre.

Dammed and Erased – Hossein Fatemi

Kurdish children playing in the small town of Hasankeyf which is doomed to disappear as a result of the Ilisu hydroelectric dam project. © Hossein Fatemi/Panos

Hasankeyf is one of the world’s oldest human settlements, on the banks of the Tigris River in Turkey. Yet this cultural treasure is about to be erased forever, due to the imminent completion of the Ilisu Dam.

Click HERE to see the story by Hossein Fatemi.

The World’s Shortest Season – Kieran Dodds

Sisimiut soccer stadium, an artificial pitch surrounded by metal fence between a road and a cliff used as a natural spectator stand. © Kieran Dodds/Panos

Greenland is unable to compete in the football World Cup, since the climate doesn’t allow for teams to play on grass pitches – a prerequisite for membership of FIFA. Yet football is wildly popular, and the annual Greenlandic Football Championship grips the whole country in the sport.

Click HERE to see the story by Kieran Dodds.

Free From Hunger, an outdoor exhibition produced by Concern and Panos Pictures, currently on show at More London Riverside

A table in Marie’s house with Amaranth leaves, a pot full of ‘termite’ wood, a hymn book and a hoe. Central African Republic. © Chris de Bode/Concern/Panos

Free From Hunger, a new outdoor photographic exhibition produced by Concern Worldwide and Panos Pictures, is currently on show until the end of the month at the More London Riverside near Tower Bridge in London, UK.

Three Panos photographers – Nora Lorek, Chris de Bode and Abbie Trayler-Smith – brought their distinct style to depict the issue of hunger in Liberia, Central African Republic and South Sudan.

Click HERE for more information and HERE to see the photos.

Publications

Panos photographers Stuart Freedman and Andrea Gjestvang are both published in this month’s issue of the German magazine MARE.