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Three Panos photographers win UNICEF Photo of the Year prizes
News

Three Panos photographers win UNICEF Photo of the Year prizes...

Three Panos photographers – Pascal Maitre, Ivor Prickett and Jérôme Gence – have been honoured at this year’...

Laurent Weyl published in Le Pèlerin magazine, France
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Laurent Weyl published in Le Pèlerin magazine, France...

Chantal Pinzi published in Internazionale, Italy
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Chantal Pinzi published in Internazionale, Italy...

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Tommy Trenchard published in Public Eye, Switzerland
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Tommy Trenchard published in Public Eye, Switzerland...

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‘Black Water, Green Gold’ – a new documentary film by Axel Sulzbacher
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‘Black Water, Green Gold’ – a new documentary film by Axel Sulzbacher...

“Black Water Green Gold” is a feature length documentary about an indigenous community fighting to save Lake Patzcuaro in Ce...

Andrew McConnell published on the Guardian website
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Andrew McConnell published on the Guardian website...

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Chantal Pinzi in Stern magazine, Germany
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Chantal Pinzi in Stern magazine, Germany...

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Mario Heller in Revue XXI, France
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Mario Heller in Revue XXI, France...

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Simon Townsley in Rhythms Magazine, Taiwan
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Simon Townsley in Rhythms Magazine, Taiwan...

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Pascal Maitre in Newsweek, Japan
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Pascal Maitre in Newsweek, Japan...

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Jonas Kakó published in Newsweek, Japan
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Jonas Kakó published in Newsweek, Japan...

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Rhodri Jones exhibiting in Foggia, Italy
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Rhodri Jones exhibiting in Foggia, Italy...

Rhodri Jones is exhibiting his long term project FESTE, looking at Italian festivals and other events at this years Foggia Fotog...

Andrew McConnell’s new photo book reviewed on New Yorker’s Photo Booth
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Andrew McConnell’s new photo book reviewed on New Yorker’s Photo Booth...

Andrew McConnell‘s new photo book – Some Worlds Have Two Suns – which has been published by GOST Books and can...

Selene Magnolia Gatti in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan
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Selene Magnolia Gatti in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan...

Pascal Maitre in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan
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Pascal Maitre in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan...

Pascal Maitre in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan
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Pascal Maitre in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan...

Noriko Hayashi in Stern magazine, Germany
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Noriko Hayashi in Stern magazine, Germany...

Chantal Pinzi in One World magazine, Netherlands
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Chantal Pinzi in One World magazine, Netherlands...

Mario Heller in Newsweek, Japan
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Mario Heller in Newsweek, Japan...

Musuk Nolte in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan
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Musuk Nolte in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan...

Pascal Maitre published in Paris Match, France
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Pascal Maitre published in Paris Match, France...

Ivor Prickett published in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan
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Ivor Prickett published in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan...

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Jonas Kako published in Wordt Vervolgd in the Netherlands
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Jonas Kako published in Wordt Vervolgd in the Netherlands...

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Jonas Kako published in MARE magazine, Germany
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Jonas Kako published in MARE magazine, Germany...

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Selene Magnolia Gatti published in We Demain, France
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Selene Magnolia Gatti published in We Demain, France...

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Mads Nissen published in Newsweek Japan
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Mads Nissen published in Newsweek Japan...

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Sean Sutton published in Geographical Magazine, UK
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Sean Sutton published in Geographical Magazine, UK...

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Daniel Ochoa de Olza published in GEO magazine in France
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Daniel Ochoa de Olza published in GEO magazine in France...

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Nick Hannes exhibiting in Plovdid, Bulgaria
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Nick Hannes exhibiting in Plovdid, Bulgaria...

Nick hannes is exhibiting his work on NEW CAPITAL, a series of six photo stories about purpose-built capitals around the world, ...

Nick Hannes exhibiting at Fotoforum in Innsbruck, Austria
Exhibitions

Nick Hannes exhibiting at Fotoforum in Innsbruck, Austria...

Nick Hannes is exhibiting his latest project NEW CAPITAL, a critical reflection on neoliberal urban development in 6 purpose-bui...

India’s Skategirls
Story by Chantal Pinzi

India’s Skategirls

With a population of over 1.4 billion, India is the most populous country on earth. Yet the number of female skateboarders can b...

Every Day Could be My Last
Story by Mads Nissen

Every Day Could be My Last

Central America\'s criminal organisations keep growing in strength, seemingly impervious to the crime fighting efforts of nation...

Long Shadow
Story by Selene Magnolia Gatti

Long Shadow

Livestock farming on an Industrial scale across Europe is causing widespread environmental degradation and serious damage to the...

All At Sea
Story by Selene Magnolia Gatti

All At Sea

The history of migration across the Mediterranean goes back thousands of years. In recent years, tens of thousands of people hav...

After the Green Revolution
Story by Harsha Vadlamani

After the Green Revolution

In India, the \'Green Revolution\' of the 1960s is not the untrammelled success that many of its boosters have claimed, though t...

Waxing Lyrical
Story by Pascal Maitre

Waxing Lyrical

The bright and opulent prints with their infinite variety of patterns have become the symbol of a continent, appreciated around ...

Lost to the Sea
Story by Tommy Trenchard

Lost to the Sea

Off the coast of Sierra Leone, a remote island once home to three villages, large areas of forest and thousands of people is on ...

Tauromaquia
Story by Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Tauromaquia

Bullfighting in Spain is more than a sport. It is a unique cultural phenomenon that brings together ritualistic performance art ...

Trump Island
Story by Jonas Kako

Trump Island

Only 150 kilometres from Washington, DC, and a mere speck of dry land measuring three square kilometres, Tangier island in Chesa...

A Stolen Kiss
Story by Daniel Ochoa de Olza

A Stolen Kiss

This project appears to be a very straightforward concept. A series of photographs of couples kissing in the street, in parks, ...

Zor
Story by Selene Magnolia Gatti

Zor

Contemporary Europe has seen a steep increase in social tensions, aggressive politics, hostility towards outsiders and a new wav...

Tightening the Belt and Road
Story by Laurent Weyl

Tightening the Belt and Road

On the ochre plains along the Mekong River the station emerges like a monumental pagoda of glass and steel. Vientiane railway s...

Carbon Trading
Story by Pascal Maitre

Carbon Trading

Today, 2.5 billion people worldwide depend on charcoal to cook their daily meals. Charcoal has been used as a fuel for over 3...

You Shall Carry
Story by Kasia Strek

You Shall Carry

On 24th June 2022, the US Supreme Court surprised and shocked many when it upheld the ruling in Dobbs vs Jackson Women\'s Health...

The Lifeless River
Story by Musuk Nolte

The Lifeless River

\'I am sacrificing myself living here. I have to get out\' says a 47 year old man, one of the few remaining inhabitants in a com...

Stuck in Goma – Under Siege
Story by Simon Townsley

Stuck in Goma – Under Siege

The women had fled into the sprawling camps of Goma hoping they would find safety. As the M23 rebel group has swept his part of ...

Mulletfest
Story by Matthew Abbott

Mulletfest

The Beastie Boys, an American hip-hop group from New York, may have coined the term when they described the mullet hairstyle in ...

Under the Olive Trees
Story by Selene Magnolia Gatti

Under the Olive Trees

The central Mediterranean has long been Europe\'s deadliest border. In 2023, some 3041 migrants lost their lives or were recorde...

The New Scramble for Africa
Story by Simon Townsley

The New Scramble for Africa

In Sierra Leone, the Chinese have stepped into the void left by the British, plundering natural resources and threatening liveli...

Seeds of Water
Story by Musuk Nolte

Seeds of Water

Peru is eighth on the list of countries with the most water, but the capital Lima, where a third of the population live, is loca...

Alash Orda
Story by Frederic Noy

Alash Orda

The largest landlocked country on earth, Kazakhstan remains for most foreigners a vast, arid void, somewhere between Russia and ...

Facebook Hill
Story by Petrut Calinescu

Facebook Hill

With a population of just over 10,000, Poienile de sub Munte is the largest village in Romania, most of whose inhabitants are pa...

Greenland Embraces Climate Change
Story by Bradley Secker

Greenland Embraces Climate Change

It\'s the most tranquil and magnificent backdrop to our planet\'s climate catastrophe, and the ramifications for Greenland, as w...

Arctic Dreams
Story by Mario Heller

Arctic Dreams

There is a tradition in Barentsburg. When you go to the mainland, you hug a tree because there are none here. The Russian enclav...

Father of the Turks
Story by Bradley Secker

Father of the Turks

On 29th October 1923, a modern nation rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first Pr...

Deadly Gold Rush in the Amazon
Story by Lalo de Almeida

Deadly Gold Rush in the Amazon

The Yanomami people are living through an unprecedented crisis due to the invasion of some 20,000 illegal gold miners who have d...

Of Mines and Man
Story by Andrea Gjestvang

Of Mines and Man

Norway, a country of pristine fjords, mountains and endless pine forests, derives 98% of the energy coursing through its grid fr...

Charcoal Children
Story by Kasia Strek

Charcoal Children

Metro Manila is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world. Around a third of its 20 million inhabitants ...

Park Life
Story by Alfredo Caliz

Park Life

\'If we lived in gardens, religion would not have been possible. Its absence has driven us to long for paradise. The space witho...

Empire Z
Story by Anonymous photographer

Empire Z

Over 90% of the Russians were sure that there wouldn\'t be a war with Ukraine. February 24th 2022 was a shock for everyone. ...

Deadly Waters
Story by Simon Townsley

Deadly Waters

The Damodar river darkens as it snakes through lush forest, tall maize fields and thatched villages. The rain water that falls o...

The Language of Bones
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The Language of Bones

20 years after Peru's Truth Commission communities are still retrieving and burying victims of Shining Path and the governmen...

Alpaqueros
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Alpaqueros

Science is helping Peru's Alpaca herders adapt to Climate Change

Sowing Water
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Sowing Water

Drawing on Inca knowledge to manage water in the Peruvian Andes

Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
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Myanmar’s Spring Revolution

The violent return of military rule in Myanmar has brought death and repression back onto the streets of the country.

The Lifeless River
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The Lifeless River

Lake Titicaca once the sacred lake of the Incas is now in danger of turning into an open sewer

No Place on Earth
Featured Story

No Place on Earth

An in-depth study of the epic Rohingya refugee crisis and its effect on hundreds of thousands of ordinary people.

New Capitals
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New Capitals

Nick Hannes explores new and planned capital cities in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia and Kazakhstan.

Warm Waters
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Warm Waters

A multi-year project looking at the effects of climate change on communities and environments across the Pacific region. ...

Americans Parade
Featured Story

Americans Parade

Americans Parade is a parade of Americans; one after the other, from one community to the next, building up a picture of Amer...

Smart Solutions
Featured Story

Smart Solutions

Towards a world free of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation, CGIAR is the world's largest global agricultural innov...

Where Love Is Illegal
Featured Story

Where Love Is Illegal

72 countries around the world have criminal laws against sexual activity by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex p...

Traces
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Traces

The effects of China's breakneck industrialisation on the Yellow River

Asmara – Africa’s Modernist Jewel
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Asmara – Africa’s Modernist Jewel

Asmara is a unique example of early 20th Century modernist architecture, now been elevated to UNESCO World Heritage status

No Stranger Place
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No Stranger Place

Would you open your home to a refugee?

On Solid Ground
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On Solid Ground

A collaboration between the International Rescue Committee and Panos Pictures

OVER
Featured Story

OVER

A photographic meditation from the skies above Poland.

From darkness into Light
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From darkness into Light

More than 620 million Africans, or two thirds of the population of the continent, have no access to electricity.

The Parallel State
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The Parallel State

A glimpse into the opaque world of contemporary Turkish politics and society.

We are Indestructible
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We are Indestructible

Ending one of the world's longest running civil wars.

River Congo – DRC’s Highway 1
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River Congo – DRC’s Highway 1

The Congo river is the lifeline of a region with few roads or railways.

Side Effects
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Side Effects

The result of years of aerial photography, this is a visual study of the complicated relationship between humans and nature.

Disposable Workers
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Disposable Workers

The people feeling the pain of Japan's unforgiving job market

Hidden Lives
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Hidden Lives

The untold story of urban refugees in Burundi, Haiti, Jordan, Malaysia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Kenya and the USA.

Belgicum
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Belgicum

The result of two decades of work, Belgicum is a unique document about a country in search of a raison d'etre.

Uncertain Tomorrow
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Uncertain Tomorrow

The Central African Republic (CAR) has seen more than its fair share of coups and unrest over the five and a half decades...

Last Stop
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Last Stop

Exploring the topography and migrations of London from the vantage point of a bus.

The Last Colony
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The Last Colony

For over 40 years Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony in northwestern Africa, and its people, the Sahrawis, have been liv...

#Future of Cities
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#Future of Cities

In collaboration with the World Photography Organisation (WPO) and Sony's Global Imaging Ambassadors (SGIA), Panos Pictures c...

My Toilet
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My Toilet

Through images and stories from 20 countries, across every continent, a collaboration between Water & Sanitation for the Urba...