Afghanistan may be going through a process of reconstruction but the situation for women, especially outside the major cities, is little better than it was under the Taliban. Lana Slezic produced this body of work on women in Afghanistan for the World ...
Using a local photographer's old box camera in a Kabul market, Lana Slezic started taking these extraordinary pictures of Afghan women and girls - a subject she had focused on in her book project Forsaken - in 2007. As she slowly familiarised ...
When war broke out between Israel and Hezbollah in July 2006, Panos photographer Jeroen Oerlemans, on holiday in Beirut and unable to return home, picked up his camera and set to work. He would document the conflict from beginning to end, capturing some ...
Jeroen Oerlemans and William Daniels photographed the devastating consequences of Haiti's 12th January 2010 earthquake. They were working for Action Aid UK, Handicap International and Merlin, which are among the charities supporting those affected by ...
As navy ships on the Greek-Turkish border search for refugees crossing the river Evros by boat, cars slowly patrol the land border around Orestiada, Nea Vyssa and Kastanies, looking for those trying their luck on foot. Each patrol car takes one Greek...
The ongoing war in Syria has brought an unprecedented refugee crisis to the Middle East. Of all the countries in the region, Lebanon, Syria's tiny next-door-neighbour Lebanon, is bearing the brunt. UNHCR figures tally more than 820,000 registered ...
The kangaroo is one of Australia's national symbols. It features on the reverse of the one dollar coin, forms the logo of the national airline, and, in the form of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, is an enduring televisual icon. But Australians' fondness for ...
Since the Burmese army's brutal military crackdown on Buddhist monks and other peaceful protesters in September 2007, a constant refrain has been, 'What happened to the monks?' Working alongside a team of researchers from Human Rights Watch, Pat ...
Wedged into a great arch of north-eastern India which loops around and almost totally envelops it, Bangladesh sits on the silty and soggy estuaries of two of the world's largest rivers - the Ganges and the Bhramaputra. The majority of the country's ...
'When I first started working on the Hope project, I simply thought about the word which at first seemed full of positive connotations. After much deliberation and with little progress on what subject I was going to photograph, I decided to take a ...
Loathed by some, admired by others, respected by many, Margaret Thatcher was a seminal political figure during her long premiership and beyond. Whatever people thought and think of her, she was a personality who elicited strong reactions and goes ...
'Stop the violence.' 'We want unity and reconciliation.' 'Enough of camp life.''We want to go home.'Violence against women and children has risen dramatically since the latest fighting broke out in eastern Congo. In November, hundreds of women took part ...
Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Most people scratch a living from the land. Their diet and health are poor. Most girls are married in their early teens. It is also the worst place in India for cataract blindness. Mastichak (which means ...
On 6 April 1994, a shaky ceasefire between the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and the Hutu-run Rwandan army that had largely been observed in the breach was blown apart by the assassination of the country's Hutu president Juvenale ...
'Don't photograph the dead' he told me. 'Have some respect!' A FEMA press officer, he looked about 20. Have some respect? Christ I could have shouted that back in his face. Have some respect! You call this having respect? It's eight days later and the ...
Potamienne sings softly as she plays with her youngest son and sorts beans for that night's meal in her yard. 'As I photographed her' explained Stuart Freedman, 'I knocked against something behind me and nearly fell. She paid no attention and it was only...