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 ...