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

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Panos photographers exhibited at House of European History, Brussels, Belgium
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Panos photographers exhibited at House of European History, Brussels, Belgium...

Four Panos photographers – Petruț Cālinescu, Piotr Malecki, Samuel Aranda and Nick Hannes – are exhibiting their w...

Panos photographers win World Press Photo awards
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Panos photographers win World Press Photo awards...

Two Panos photographers – Tommy Trenchard and Musuk Nolte – have won World Press Photo awards in this year’s c...

Chris Stowers’ new book “Shoot, Ask and … Run!” now available
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Chris Stowers’ new book “Shoot, Ask and … Run!” now available...

Chris Stowers has published the second part of his autobiographical account of over 40 years working as a photojournalist in ove...

Marco Garofalo exhibiting at ArtHub in Malpensa Airport, Milan, Italy
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Marco Garofalo exhibiting at ArtHub in Malpensa Airport, Milan, Italy...

Marco Garofalo‘s long term project energETICA is being exhibited at Milan’s Malpensa Airport from 26th March until 3...

Petrut Calinescu published in Annabelle magazine, Switzerland
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Petrut Calinescu published in Annabelle magazine, Switzerland...

Axel Javier Sulzbacher published in STERN magazine, Germany
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Axel Javier Sulzbacher published in STERN magazine, Germany...

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

Mads Nissen wins NPPA portrait award
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Mads Nissen wins NPPA portrait award...

Mads Nissen has won the First Prize in the ‘Portrait/Personality’ section of this year’s National Press Photog...

Six Panos photographers recognised at Sony World Photography Awards
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Six Panos photographers recognised at Sony World Photography Awards...

Five Panos photographers have been honoured at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards for their work. Three photographe...

Daniel Ochoa de Olza published in Geo magazine, France
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Daniel Ochoa de Olza published in Geo magazine, France...

Christian Sinibaldi published in Internazionale, Italy
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Christian Sinibaldi published in Internazionale, Italy...

Musuk Nolte published in GEO magazine, France
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Musuk Nolte published in GEO magazine, France...

Simon Townsley published in Africa magazine, Italy
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Simon Townsley published in Africa magazine, Italy...

Nick Hannes published in Africa magazine, Italy
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Nick Hannes published in Africa magazine, Italy...

Tommy Trenchard published in Africa magazine, Italy
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Tommy Trenchard published in Africa magazine, Italy...

Andrew McConnell published in Africa magazine, Italy
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Andrew McConnell published in Africa magazine, Italy...

Noriko Hayashi published in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan
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Noriko Hayashi published in Rhythms Monthly magazine, Taiwan...

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Daniel Ochoa de Olza published in de Volkskrant, Netherlands
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Daniel Ochoa de Olza published in de Volkskrant, Netherlands...

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Robin Hammond published in National Geographic Magazine
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Robin Hammond published in National Geographic Magazine...

Musuk Nolte published in GEO magazine, France
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Musuk Nolte published in GEO magazine, France...

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Chantal Pinzi published in Courrier International
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Chantal Pinzi published in Courrier International...

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Chantal Pinzi published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Switzerland
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Chantal Pinzi published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Switzerland...

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Musuk Nolte published on The Guardian website
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Musuk Nolte published on The Guardian website...

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Jan Banning publishes in Volkskrant, Netherlands
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Jan Banning publishes in Volkskrant, Netherlands...

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Tom Pilston published on The Guardian website
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Tom Pilston published on The Guardian website...

Tommy Trenchard in Geographical magazine, UK
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Tommy Trenchard in Geographical magazine, UK...

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Tommy Trenchard in Delayed Gratification, UK
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Tommy Trenchard in Delayed Gratification, UK...

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Ivan Kashinsky & Karla Gachet in National Geographic, Spanish edition
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Ivan Kashinsky & Karla Gachet in National Geographic, Spanish edition...

Christian Sinibaldi in Newsweek, Japan
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Christian Sinibaldi in Newsweek, Japan...

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Brooklyn Skate Moms
Story by Mario Heller

Brooklyn Skate Moms

The Brooklyn Skate Moms are a group of women who meet at the skate park between taking their kids to school and going to work. W...

Slumdogs and Millionnaires
Story by Pascal Maitre

Slumdogs and Millionnaires

Mumbai, India\'s commercial capital, is a seething whirlpool of human activity that is bursting at the seams, struggling to sust...

Green Trains, White Trains
Story by Gilles Sabrie

Green Trains, White Trains

China is a country of superlatives, and its railway network is no exception: it has the fastest, the longest, the highest and th...

Elephant Whisperers
Story by Tommy Trenchard

Elephant Whisperers

Each year tens of thousands of tourists visit the Zambian town of Livingstone to see the famous Victoria Falls and view the area...

Mainly on the Plain
Story by Alessandro Gandolfi

Mainly on the Plain

The Puszta, a grassy plain in eastern Hungary, is rapidly changing. It is the last European steppe, populated by wild horses...

No More Midwives
Story by Noriko Hayashi

No More Midwives

Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Facing years of conflict and humanitarian crisis, loca...

Lucha Libre Extrema
Story by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet

Lucha Libre Extrema

Blood-splattered faces and lacerated backs, every type of flesh wound inflicted with barbed wire and random auto parts. All this...

Jump for Joy
Story by Christian Sinibaldi

Jump for Joy

Cheerleading has long been associated with American high school movies and glittery sideline entertainment, but it has a rich hi...

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 Gap
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The Gap

Will Trump fill the holes in the wall?

Jump for Joy
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Jump for Joy

How Cheerleeding conquered the world from Lagos to Ho Chi Minh City

Alpaqueros
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Alpaqueros

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

Land of Marble
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Land of Marble

The world's most valuable marble has been quarried in Carrara for two thousand years. But is it still sustainable?

Black gold
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Black gold

The income generated by Europe's largest on-shore oil field is overshadowed by the environmental cost.

Event Horizon
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Event Horizon

“With the beginning of winter, I set out on a journey in search of harmony. Driven by instinct, I ventured farther and fart...

The River Runs Dry
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The River Runs Dry

The worst drought in the Amazon in a century has left communities cut off from the source of their livelihoods

Re-entry
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Re-entry

Every three months a space rocket carries three astronauts to the international space station while three return to earth...

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
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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
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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
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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
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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

Future of Cities

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...