11 June 2020

Black Lives Matter

Thousands joined Black Lives Matter protests in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 7th 2020. © Nora Lorek/Panos

Panos stands in solidarity with people of colour who are subject to structural violence and racism and join them in the fight against racial inequality and injustice.

Several Panos photographers have been photographing the Black Lives Matter protests worldwide. You can click HERE to see their images.

Demonstrators take a knee during a standoff with police during protests resulting from the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by police. Minneapolis, USA, 31.05.20. © Hossein Fatemi/Panos

Talking Pictures: Panos Photographer Mark Henley

In the first episode of Talking Pictures, a series of conversations with Panos photographers, Mark Henley discusses his work covering inside the World Health Organization in Geneva with Panos Pictures director Adrian Evans.

After nearly 20 years travelling and photographing the consequences of economic and social change in a globalising world, Mark Henley is now based in Switzerland where he focuses on the organisations that helped drive these changes: banks and bankers in Zurich, diplomats and UN decision makers in Geneva. He operates behind the scenes at conferences and meetings – a far cry from the photojournalists’ natural habitat – where he finds a drama and tension more commonly associated with frontline reporting. Here among other subjects he talks about photographing inside the World Health Organisation as it confronts the Covid-19 crisis.

You can watch the interview on IGTV HERE or on Vimeo HERE.

New stories

Suburban Herbarium – William Arnold

This collection of plant portraits by William Arnold form a homage to Victorian botany. To produce the work in this series, the living specimens were collected and identified, then taken to the darkroom to be projected, enlarged and logged as a unique pure form-study in silver-gelatin prints.

Click HERE to see the story.

Fire and Pestilence – Matthew Abbott

Zoey Salucci-Mcdermott (21) breast feeding four week old Phoenix Harrington and Mike Harrington (22) with Uma Harrington (2). They are living in a donated Winnebago on a dairy farm near Tilba Tilba. The couple lost their rented home in the 2019/2020 bushfires. New South Wales, Australia, 5.05.20. © Matthew Abbott/Panos

Ravaged by bush fires that ripped through swathes of southeastern Australia in December 2019, rural communities are now having to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. For thousands of people living precariously in temporary accommodation and depending on food handouts and help from relief centres, the lockdown declared across the country designed to stop the spread of the virus has been the last straw.

Click HERE to see the story by Matthew Abbott.

In Search of Black Cardamom – Ian Teh

A worker carries the heavy work of harvesting black cardamom (Thao Qua). The picked fruits are kept in repurposed orange fertilizer bags which will be carried to a campsite for drying. Sapa, Vietnam, 10.2018. © Ian Teh/Panos

High up in Vietnam’s Hoang Lien Son mountain range, an unusual crop has been cultivated since the 1990s. Prized in China for its medicinal qualities in alleviating stomach complaints and used extensively in Vietnamese cooking, black cardamom has become an important source of income for local farmers who were deprived of their livelihoods when the growing of Opium was banned in 1990.

Click HERE to see the story by Ian Teh.

Coronavirus Diary – Nick Hannes

Anja wakes up. Ranst, Belgium, 04.20. © Nick Hannes/Panos

During the lockdown, Nick Hannes photographed his family’s daily life in quarantine at their home in Ranst, Belgium. A selection of 49 of these images has just been published as a book, ‘An Unexpected Lesson in Joy’, published by the Falabella Stable. You can pre-order a signed copy on this link. 1€ per book goes to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to support their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Click HERE to see the story.

Kieran Dodds published in D – La Repubblica Magazine

Click HERE to see more from Kieran Dodds’ portraits of ginger people around the world.

Frédéric Noy exhibiting in Bretagne, France

In a rubbish dump, in a wetland area of Lake Victoria, a man washes plastic bags, scavenged from the rubbish in order to sell them to recyclers. Nkumba Bukolwa Site, Katabi, Wakiso District, Uganda, 2018. © Frédéric Noy/Panos

Frédéric Noy‘s series ‘Lake Victoria, Slowly Dying’ will be exhibited at the 10th edition of the Festival Photo du Guilvinec, taking place in Bretagne, France, from 15 July to 30 October.

Click HERE for more information on the festival.