In collaboration with Panos Pictures and the World Photography Organisation (WPO), Sony's Global Imaging Ambassadors (SGIA) present a nine-month social documentary initiative called FutureofCities. The project explores how cities around the world are...
Two conflicts affect the population living in the area known as the 'triangle of death' in the northern part of Katanga province, one of Congo's richest provinces in natural resources. Intercommunal clashes between the Luba and the Twa ethnic groups,...
During her 55 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo Sister Maria Concetta has learned many lessons, but slowing down isn't one of them. A practiced midwife, the 80-year-old nun has assisted the births of more than 20,000 babieseight of whom were ...
In collaboration with Panos Pictures and the World Photography Organisation (WPO), Sony's Global Imaging Ambassadors (SGIA) present a nine-month social documentary initiative called FutureofCities. The project explores how cities around the world are...
Chess boxing is the brainchild of Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh who developed an idea floated in a French comic novel in 1992 where opponents fight a whole boxing match against each other and then sit down to play chess. Rubingh thought it ...
The Full Moon Party in Haad Rin on the Thai island of Ko Pha Ngan started as a tiny hippie gathering in the 1980s. The first party was improvised around a wooden shed not far from the sea and was attended by a few dozen travellers. At the time, the ...
As the sound of an ambulance siren approaches, everyone on the road runs away. 'It's the Ebola ambulance,' explains Jaime, a young journalist from Freetown, Sierra Leone. The car speeds through the downtown market, the driver wearing white protective...
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and largest economy, has decided. For the first time in the country's turbulent political history, an opposition politician has unseated the incumbent in a democratic election that was deemed to be broadly free...
When Dr Nayana Patel arrives at her clinic in the morning, the lobby is full of women. Some are wearing brightly coloured saris, others are in western dress. They either desperately want a baby or are hoping give their own children a better chance in...
Throughout Guatemala, a verdant and fertile country in central America, chronic malnutrition is a creeping menace that leaves children physically and mentally stunted, with serious consequences for the country's economic future. The country has the ...
A popular saying in Guatemala describes how locals feel about the staggering level of violence in the country: 'En Guatemala, la vida no vale nada.' ('Life is worth nothing in Guatemala.') In 2011, the country elected Otto Fernando Perez Molina, a...
On January 12, 2010, Port-Au-Prince suffered a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that destroyed much of the city, killing an unknown number of Haitians and leaving over a million homeless. The death toll estimates range from 100,000 to 300,000. Apartment ...
'The city pays millions for its image, for the perception of tranquility and calm' says Fernando Quijano, president of the Medellin conflict monitoring group 'Corporation for Peace and Development (Corpades) which investigates gang activity and maps...
On 12 January 2010 southern Haiti was shaken by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, the capital, killing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving over a million homeless. Though the estimates of fatalities vary widely ...
PIGS is a term coined by the business and financial press as a way to refer to Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain during their current financial plight. Some would also include Ireland in this group, but since it never possessed an empire, it hasn't ...
Cargo cults are religious practices in Melanesia, the Pacific region stretching from Fiji in the East to Papua New Guinea in the West, which focus on obtaining the 'cargo' (or material wealth) from the Western World through magic, religious rituals ...
In Haiti today, more than 300,000 children are victims of domestic slavery. In Haitian Creole they are called restaveks, from the French reste avec or 'stay with'. Many parents who live in poverty are unable to feed their children and give them away ...
The tiny island nation of Nauru, a 21 square kilometre speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean just south of the Equator, today finds itself at the centre of the controversial immigration policy of Australia, its vast and increasingly ...
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a dangerous place for women, or 'meri' as they are called in Tok Pisin, the local language. Violence against women is seen as normal. According to recent statistics from the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health, ...
Sorcery-related violence is widespread in Melanesia. In Papua New Guinea (PNG) it can take a particularly savage form. In the Highlands Region witch-hunts occur in almost every province. Belief in 'sanguma' (witches) or 'puri-puri' (black magic) is ...
Remote Manus Island was once one of the least developed places in Papua New Guinea due to its remoteness. Since the early 2000s, however, it has become one of the centres of Australia's 'Pacific Solution', a controversial system of processing asylum ...
The tiny island of Ebeye in Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, has a total area of 0.36 square kilometres and is home to over 13,000 people, most of whom were moved there from nearby islands because of a US Army missile range-testing program that was...
At the end of the 15th century, tens of thousands of Jews were expelled from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabelle, the 'Catholic Monarchs', who had brought the Inquisition to Spain and were rooting out any deviant Christian movements as well as ridding ...
The tiny island of Niue in the South Pacific, also known as the Rock of Polynesia, is one of the most remote places on earth. It can only be accessed by plane, on a three and a half hour flight from Auckland which flies once or twice a week, or by ...
Warm Waters is a long-term photographic project by Vlad Sokhin investigating the effects of climate change on the nature and people of communities living in and around the Pacific Ocean. Tackling one of the biggest issues facing mankind through the ...
In the age of universal mobile phone coverage, Facebook and Lonely Planet guides there are still a few countries which tightly restrict independent tourism. North Korea takes great pains to ensure that foreign visitors only get to see the socialist ...
Like many of the cities that were built and populated against all odds in the days of the Soviet Union's breakneck development of the 1930s and 40s, Norilsk doubled up as a prison camp, part of the vast network of forced labour colonies that became ...
The Kupol ('Dome') Gold Mine in Russia's far northeastern Chukotka Autonomous Okrug is a fully functioning self-contained mini-city of 1,200 workers who live on the remote station in shifts around the year. For three months of the year - between ...
Russia's Taimyr region, stretching far into the arctic ocean, high above the arctic circle, is home to almost two thirds of the world's wild reindeer population. The local indigenous groups - Nenets, Dolgans and Nganasans - are famous for their ...
Since the end of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994, around three million black South Africans have risen into the country's middle class. Until recently, the middle class was almost exclusively white but demographics have rapidly altered this ...
In the far reaches of North Dakota, close to the Canadian border, a remote and inhospitable landscape has turned into an El Dorado for oil companies forever searching for new reserves and for thousands of victims of the credit crunch. The result is ...
In the ever shifting web of alliances, offensives and counter offensives that have characterised Syria's brutal civil war, the People's Protection Units (or YPG by their Kurdish acronym) have been a consistent force in the far northeast of the ...
In the 70th year after nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and 100 years after chemical weapons were used at the Battle of Ypres during the First World War, we are experiencing one of the most insecure periods in decades. The ...
As the Syrian Civil War draws to the end of its fourth lethal year, Panos photographer Teun Voeten and Dutch journalist Robert Dulmers made their way to Syria, taking the official, government sanctioned route and travelling with the Syrian Army. ...
For decades now the United States has been Israel's staunchest Western ally and its most generous foreign benefactor. With annual grants of between $ 1 and $ 3 billion since 1985, three quarters of which Israel is required to spend on American goods ...
9 November 2014 is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The 3.6 metre high concrete embodiment of the division of Europe into a democratic, US-focused West and a Communist, Moscow-dominated East, ran through the heart of one of ...