5 August 2020

Summer holidays in Poland

Wladyslawowo, Poland 01-02 August 2020. © Kacper Kowalski / Panos Pictures

The latest series of images by Polish aerial photographer Kacper Kowalski is shot from his gyrocopter. This photograph was taken last weekend in Wladyslawowo, a small tourist town on the Baltic Sea, where Covid-19 doesn’t appear to have dampened these holidaymakers’ desire to go to the beach. This beach is a cult place and usually one of the most crowded in Poland – this year is no different than previous years.

Please contact Marina (marina@panos.co.uk) if you are interested in licensing these images.

New stories

Brazil under the shadow of Covid – Lalo de Almeida

Delivery drivers protest to demand better working conditions for those who work for app-based food delivery platforms amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo, Brazil, 07.2020. © Lalo de Almeida/Panos

As the corona virus pandemic continues to sweep across the world, Latin America has become a new hotspot in the spread of the disease according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Brazil has seen the largest number of infections, second only to the United States.

Lalo de Almeida has been documenting the devastating effect the health crisis is having on a country whose poorer citizens were already reeling from years of recession and economic crisis.

Click HERE to see the story.

Thailand Bucks the Trend – Adam Dean

A cleaner disinfects a portrait of Thai King Vajiralongkorn in the VIP waiting room at Bangkok Railway Station. Bangkok, Thailand, 03.2020. © Adam Dean/Panos

Though it was the first country to record a case of coronavirus outside China in January 2020, Thailand has consistently bucked the trend during the developing pandemic. It is unclear whether there is one dominant reason why this has been the case but as of mid July the country had reported a mere 3,240 cases and 58 deaths, while no new cases of local transmission had been registered for the past seven weeks.

Click HERE to see the story by Adam Dean.

Talking Pictures: Nora Lorek

South Sudanese refugee Susan Maneno (22), holding her one year old daughter Peres Kwaje, stands in front of their field of sunflowers on an agricultural plot allocated them in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement. Uganda, 2017. © Nora Lorek/Panos

Click HERE to watch the conversation between Panos photographer Nora Lorek and Panos director Adrian Evans.

Nora Lorek’s work is rooted in migration, culture and human rights. Born in Germany in 1992, she has lived in Gothenburg, Sweden, since 2005. In recent years she has been focusing on projects in refugee camps and informal settlements, accompanying refugees on their way across the borders of Europe and Eastern Africa. Her work has blurred the lines between journalism and activism, as she co-founded the Milaya project, a nonprofit to support South Sudanese women in their efforts to start up small businesses, after working in the Bidibidi refugee camp in Uganda for National Geographic.

In this conversation, Nora discussed photographing in the Calais jungle, her ongoing collaborations with National Geographic, the ethics and lack of diversity within the photojournalism industry, and longing for a slower, more personal approach to the subjects she covers.

Matthew Abbott shortlisted for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award

Homes and cars burn in the village of Balmoral. The village of Balmoral, southwest of Sydney, has been decimated by the Green Wattle Creek firestorm. Balmoral, NSW, Australia, 2019. © Matthew Abbott/Panos

Congratulations to Matthew Abbott, who is shortlisted for this year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his work documenting the devastating bushfires in Australia earlier this year.

Click HERE to see more from the series and the other shortlisted photographers.

Ian Teh published in National Geographic

Last year, Panos photographer Ian Teh, along with a team of journalists and scientists, went on a National Geographic expedition to Cape Horn, at the tip of South America, to look for the southernmost tree on Earth. Click HERE to see what they found.

Kieran Dodds interviewed on Photography Down The Line

Hedges lit by streetlights in Craigleith, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2020. © Kieran Dodds/Panos

Kieran Dodds has been interviewed for Photography Down The Line, a charity and centre for photography based in Scotland. In this conversation, among other topics, he discusses his latest series looking at hedges in Edinburgh, photographed during the coronavirus lockdown. You can listen to the podcast HERE.