The elderly gentlemen who frequent the many coffee bars in Asmara, Eritrea's capital, dressed in European suits, fashionable hats and hand-made leather shoes refer to themselves as "Asmarinos". Proud of their city and their country's history, they ...
On the day that British Prime Minister Theresa May officially informed Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council of the UK's intention to leave the European Union, Piotr Malecki walked the streets of London, meeting individuals from all ...
Hawaii, with its benign climate, all-star tourism marketing team and exotic fruits seems like a picture-perfect paradise convincing even the most cautious of individuals that life's every dream will come to fruition with a change of zip code. ...
On a recent trip to the United States, Panos photographer Graeme Williams tried to get to the root of the apparent contradictions in the country's psyche that have led to the deep divisions within the society. Born in South Africa, Graeme was puzzled...
"I see my trip to Idomeni on the Greek - Macedonian border as a turning point in my experience of following and reporting on the Syrian diaspora across the Middle East and Europe. Last year I visited Izmir in Turkey where hundreds of Syrian refugees...
Working with the British Red Cross in Sicily, Alfredo D'Amato met individuals, couples and whole families of migrants from countries across West and East Africa who had undertaken incredibly dangerous and potentially deadly journeys across countless ...
Because of its uniquely suitable microclimate, the Greek island of Chios is a major producer of mastic, or 'Arabic gum' - the resin of the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus). The sticky sap has been used medicinally since antiquity and is said to work ...
"Palaces of Memory" is a journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafes which can be found in cities throughout the sub-continent. The Coffee Houses simultaneously speak of a Post-Independence optimism ...
The Mauritanian town of Chinguetti, situated toward the end of one of the few paved roads that radiate out of the capital Nouakchott, was once considered among Islam's holiest cities - the city of libraries. Founded in the 12th century as a fortified...
Australian healthcare company Ansell is the world's second biggest condom manufacturer and its Thai factory, based in the southern city of Surat Thani, is its most productive site, churning out over 1 billion units a year. Different countries ...
Almost a fifth of China is desert and the deserts have been encroaching on farmland, towns and villages at a rate of almost 2,500 square kilometres per year, making vast tracts of the interior unusable and uninhabitable. Vast sandstorms regularly ...
The Black Sea - mysterious, menacing and mythical - is at the heart of centuries of warfare, turmoil and historical drama. A mixture of totalitarian regimes and young democracies, a melting pot of ethnic minorities, the Black Sea region is a point of...
Coal used to be West Virginia's 'gold' but the industry has been in decline of late and the Obama administration's 'Clean Power Plan', which aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by a third by 2030, has caused coal exports from the state to collapse. ...
Detroit was the birthplace of America's Middle Class. With the advent of the motor car the city grew rich, workers were well paid and were able to enjoy the fruits of their labour in the bustling city that attracted migrants from across the US and ...
The economy of Youngstown flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with a number of large steel works providing the vast majority of industrial jobs. The steel boom created tens of thousands of jobs, drawing in migrants from across the ...
I spent most of 2015 documenting the exodus from Syria, following four young men from the Syria-Turkey border to Greece, through the Balkans and on to Germany. I saw how Europeans opened their homes to refugees and donated food, clothes and their ...