Following the departure of Tunisia's strongman Zine El Abedine Ben Ali in early January and the drawn-out showdown between President Mubarak and anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, on 17 February 2011 it was Libya's turn. After ...
Once the most stable and prosperous of West African nations, Cote d'Ivoire has seen in the 21st century with a series of internal conflicts following a coup against the then president Henri Bedi in 1999. As in so many other parts of Africa, ethnicity...
What would you do if the place you call home was torn apart by violence? How would you cope if floods or drought destroyed your crops and your family went hungry? If you had to flee suddenly, what would you take with you? Working in partnership with ...
In the barren plains of northern Jordan, just 10 miles from the Syrian border, lies the Zaatari refugee camp where close to 150,000 Syrians have found shelter after fleeing across the border from their homeland which has been gripped by one of the ...
As Britain commemorated 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade, Panos produced an exhibition to reveal how human trafficking is a bitter reality for thousands of women, men and children in the UK today. Slave Britain artfully documents the ...
How can you cut your carbon footprint by half? It might seem impossible, but take a short ferry ride from the centre of Stockholm and you may just find the answer. The district of Hammarby Sjostad, a former brownfield site on the edge of a lake, is fast ...
As the UK prepared for a general election on May 6th widely seen as the most important in a generation, party leaders criss-crossed the country in search of votes. Wherever they went, a Panos photographer was not far behind. This is a selection of ...
Paul Weinberg conceived and curated the exhibition Then & Now for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. It featured the work of eight South African documentary photographers, all of whom were associated with the legendary ...
For centuries the Indian sub-continent has been the last redoubt of the hirsute; a reliquary for the beards and moustaches of epochs past. Not so long ago every Indian office, factory or farm had its collection of Soup Strainers, French Forks, Recumbent ...
It's an apocalyptic scene. As far as the eye can see stretches a flattened landscape sodden with cracked mud. Zigzagging pathways of rocks and roof tiles laid down by former residents indicate where it is safe to walk. The jagged remains of crumbling ...
Surrounding the gritty industrial town of Dhanbad is a region rich in coal, vital to India's burgeoning energy and steel industries. Entire communities of scavengers scratch a living recycling leftover coal lumps, often found in the slag dumped by ...
In the winter months of December and January, when the plains of North India are awash with fog and icy winds, the country's wedding season reaches full fury. The colour and vibrancy of these events - which often last for days - are increasingly becoming...
Known as the "Spanish Chinatown" and omprising around 800 factories covering 1.5 million square metres, the Cobo Calleja industrial zone in Fuenlabrada on the outskirts of Madrid is the largest Chinese wholesale hub in Europe, raking in around 870 ...
Fiercely independent and historically at odds with the central authorities in Jakarta, Aceh is now classified as a Special Region of Indonesia. It is overwhelmingly Muslim and has become the first province of this vast and mainly religiously ...
As Calcutta was to the British Empire, so the tiny and distant island of Ambon was to the Dutch. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) made this the base of its administration and favoured the Ambonese in their civil service due to the island's ...
Imagine a proudly independent, mist-shrouded island nation, a country of tinkering backyard inventors, small-scale industrial manufacturers, shopkeepers and farmers. A nation home to a vibrant Baby Boom generation with money to spend on leisure ...
Photographer and filmmaker Martin Adler witnessed excessive and disproportionate use of force while embedded with Charlie Company, an American combat unit of the 4th Infantry Division, in Iraq in December 2003. He also uncovered the systematic taking of ...
'For ten years they did not let us breathe' Chechen civilian, 2004. On New Year's Eve 1994, Russian forces invaded Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, igniting a fierce resistance that eventually forced troops to withdraw two years later. In 1999, the ...
Our colleague Martin Adler was killed in Mogadishu on the 23rd of June 2006. He was filming a demonstration when a lone gunman came out of the crowd and shot him at close range. Martin was one of the longest serving members of Panos Pictures, and was a ...
Martin Adler's reporting from the civil war in Liberia in 2003 remains a highlight in his career. Almost alone throughout the weeks of heavy fighting between Charles Taylor's child soldiers and the equally young rebel groups, Martin witnessed both ...
It is 10 years on 7 October 2011 since the beginning of the War in Afghanistan. Precipitated by the terrorist attacks on NY and Washington on 11 November that year, the Taliban regime in power in Afghanistan at the time was quickly toppled by the ...
A one-year-old Nenet nomad will have crossed rivers, braved storms and traversed 1,000 miles of terrain - a journey they will make every year for the rest of their lives as they follow their reindeer across Siberia's Yamal peninsula. 'For us, deer is ...
History has come full circle for South Africa's witkaffers - white Negroes. At the turn of the previous century, many Afrikaners lost everything in the Boer War and had to compete with Blacks for low-paid jobs. They were saved by 'positive ...
Religion has become a flourishing business in poverty-stricken Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, with scores of pentecostal churches springing up in recent years. They promise miracles but deliver little to alleviate worshippers' ...
There is a proverb saying that the Cantonese eat everything on 4 legs except for a table and a chair and everything that flies except for an aeroplane. Dong Wan animal market, in the West of Canton, is the place where the Cantonese get their exotic meat:...
From a Hindu temple in southern India to the smartest salons in the West, the lucrative trade in human hair traverses the globe. It is traditional for Hindus to have their heads shaved at a temple at least once in a lifetime. At Tirumala Tirupati ...
In 2006, five countries in East Africa suffered their worst drought in over a decade. Years of low rainfall in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti were exacerbated by the almost complete failure of the rainy season expected at the end of 2005....
A dry bed scattered with shells and rusting ships is all that remains of a formerly bustling harbour in what was once the world's fourth-largest inland sea. The Soviet Union decided in 1918 that the two rivers that fed the Aral Sea, the Amu Darya and the...
Tanzania's albinos are stalked by cancer, stigmatisation and murder. Albinism is a genetic condition with a recessive inheritance that causes little or no pigmentation in people's eyes, skin or hair. Their lack of melanin means albinos have sandy ...
'Just because they are living in isolation does not give us the right to let them down.' This simple principle drives Friar Richard Hardi, an ophthalmologist based in Mbuji Mayi in the centre of the DR Congo, to venture into some of the remotest ...
For minorities in the new Kosovo, the future is uncertain. In a population of 1.9 million at the end of 2006, around 90% were ethnically Albanian, 6% Serb, 2% Muslim Slavs, with the remainder Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians and Turks. In some instances, notably...
The Moken, a nomadic tribe of sea gypsies who live on the Surin Islands off the western coast of Thailand, survived the South Asian tsunami thanks to a low-tech 'early warning system' based on wisdom passed down through the generations. Elders urged the ...
In the space of six days in July 1995, almost 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically massacred by Serb forces in and around the town of Srebrenica. Infamously, Dutch peacekeeping troops and the wider international community failed to ...
In July 2007 Andrew Testa won the Amnesty International Media Award for Photojournalism for his story on the victims of acid attacks in Bangladesh. The feature was commissioned by Germany's Brigitte magazine and published in the UK by Ei8ht magazine. ...
At the end of the Kosovo war in June 1999, 5,206 people were reported missing by their families. The vast majority were ethnic Albanian civilians killed by Serbian soldiers, police and paramilitaries during the war. Over the next seven years the bodies ...
As Kosovo moves towards statehood, Andrew Testa has embarked on a new project. His aim is to explore the different landscapes of a country which is on the brink of a new start, but which remains scarred by ghosts of the past....