3 September 2019

Panos Pictures at Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France

Panos photographers Frédéric Noy, Pascal Maitre and Ivor Prickett are exhibiting at the Visa Pour L’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France. The exhibitions opened on Saturday and will be on show until 15 September in various venues in the city.

Pascal Maitre and Frédéric Noy are also both nominated for the prestigious Visa D’Or award in the magazine category with their exhibited series.

Click HERE for more information and to see the full programme of the festival.

Niger. At night, dealers who have already chosen their animals at the cattle market take the camels, sheep and goats to the municipal slaughterhouse in Agadez. The meat is then delivered to the city butchers. © Pascal Maitre/National Geographic/Panos

The Sahel marks the separation between the sands of the Sahara and the tropical rainforests of Africa. It is home to 125 million people, and within the next fifteen years, the population will increase by 60%. The region is suffering from food insecurity, political insecurity and climate change.

Click HERE to see more from Pascal Maitre‘s series The Sahel in Danger.

A man rinsing plastic bags in a rubbish dump in marshland, where the blue dye from the plastic runs into the lake. Katabi, Uganda. © Frédéric Noy/Panos

Lake Victoria is the world’s second-largest freshwater lake. In 2018, the governor of Kisumu County in Kenya, professor Anyang’ Nyong’o, stated that if radical action were not taken, whithin 50 years, the lake would be killed by pollution dumped there by humans.

Click HERE to see more from Frédéric Noy‘s series Lake Victoria, Slowly Dying.

Civilians who had remained in west Mosul during the battle to retake the city, lined up for an aid distribution in the Mamun neighbourhood. Iraq – March 2017. © Ivor Prickett/The New York Times/Panos

Ivor Prickett’s work End of the Caliphate, commissioned by The New York Times, is the result of two years photographing the often brutal battle against the forces of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

Click HERE to see more from the series.

Mary Turner shortlisted for the Portrait of Britain award

Jake, a cage fighter, catches his breath after winning his first public fight. Although the sport has a bad reputation it provides a lifeline for some young men in the north east of England who have grown up in deprived communities. Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear. © Mary Turner/Panos

Mary Turner‘s portrait of Jake, a young cage fighter, was shortlisted for the Portrait of Britain award, organised by The British Journal of Photography.

Click HERE to see all the shortlisted images.

New photobook: OVER by Kacper Kowalski

Kacper Kowalski‘s latest series OVER is a collection of aerial images showing the world that exists only for a few mornings a year, taken during aerial journeys above Polish landscapes.

The work is now available as a self-published photobook. Click HERE to see the feature and HERE to order the book.

Publications

Kieran Dodd‘s photographs of the Skye Trail, in Northern Scotland are published in this month’s issue of GEO France magazine.

Nora Lorek‘s photograph of Kennedy Lemmy, a South Sudanese refugee in the Bidibidi camp in Uganda, is published in The Guardian.

Tommy Trenchard‘s series on the vanilla trade in Madagascar is published in El Pais XL Semanal. Click HERE to see the full story.

Frédéric Noy‘s image of the Lake Victoria port, part of the exhibition in Perpignan, is published in The Guardian.