19 February 2019

Panos photographers win Pictures of the Year (POY) awards

Henry Malish, 13, and two of his friends are practicing head stands. Uganda, 2019. © Mads Nissen/Panos

Three Panos photographers – Mads Nissen, Matthew Abbott and Ian Willms – have won awards at this year’s Pictures of the Year (POY) competition in the Daily Life category. The other categories will be announced in the next weeks.

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New photobook: Americans Parade by George Georgiou

Mermaid Palace at Coney Island, New York. © George Georgiou/Panos

Looking at the phenomenon of parades, from one community to the next, Americans Parade by George Georgiou builds up a picture of Americans across the United States the year Donald Trump was elected.

Click HERE to see the feature and to buy a signed copy of the book.

New story: Quicksilver Quarries by Adam Dean

Miners dig ore along an overground, exposed vein in a small-scale artisanal gold mine on the Indotan concession. Taliwang, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, 2019. © Adam Dean/Panos

On the island of Sumbawa in central Indonesia, thousands of artisanal miners have been digging up gold in dangerous, informal mines, sunk into jungle hillsides, for generations. Working without licenses and primitive equipment, the artisanal mines are tolerated by the local authorities as they are one of the few sources of paid work in this underdeveloped part of the country.

Click HERE to see the story by Adam Dean.

Publications

Elena Chernyshova in El Mundo

Elena Chernyshova’s journey aboard an icebreaker charting the Northeast Passage over the top of Russia has been published in El Mundo in Spain.

Ian Willms in Granta Magazine

Ian Willms traced the journey of his Mennonite ancestors fleeing persecution in 1920s Russia across Europe to Canada. He followed their centuries-long journey through Europe, Russia and Siberia, photographing the places and people that had been left behind.

Mads Nissen on BBC News

Mads Nissen discusses his intimate photograph of Jon and Alex, taken in St Petersburg in 2014, in a BBC News film about homophobia in Russia.

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Rhodri Jones exhibiting in Bologna

Rhodri Jones is exhibiting his work from Albania in the 1990s in Bologna, Italy, at Spazio Lavì. The exhibition, ‘Eredità tribale’ will be on show until 29 February.

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