On the slopes of Mount Ijen in eastern Java, a group of around 110 local men carry out one of the most demanding and dangerous jobs. Ijen is one of around 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia and while it hasn't erupted since 1999, the crater has filled...

By the time Dafrin Ambotang was four years old, he could already hold his breath and dive down to the coral-strewn sea bed of the lagoon in front of his house. By the age of six, he had speared his first fish. Ambotang belongs to the Bajau people, a ...

In the remote jungle city of Mong La, on Myanmar's border with China, endangered species are sold openly as aphrodisiacs and traditional medicines in the city's animal market. In local restaurants, customers are treated to rare creatures of all ...

On Qeshm island, at the narrowest part of the Straits of Hormuz, an ancient ship building tradition survives that is reminiscent of biblical times in its simplicity and workmanship. The Lenj is a traditional wooden boat, made with planks, that has ...

This series of portraits of refugees seeking asylum in Switzerland was defaced during a public exhibition in a square in Geneva. The original series was produced as part of an anti-racism week, in cooperation with the New York-based Insideout ...

The Yazidis are a religious minority living in the border regions between Syria, Iraq and Turkey. In northern Iraq they are concentrated around the town of Sinjar at the foot of the Sinjar mountains. Their monotheistic faith, which originated in the ...

Once held up as a beacon of hope in Africa, Eritrea is now more often referred to as a militarised camp ruled by an authoritarian regime. Since independence in 1991, Eritrea has had fraught relations with most of its neighbours and mainly features in...

hana no kage aka no tanin wa nakari keri In the shadow of the cherry blossom complete strangers there are none Kobayashi Issa (17621826) Sakura or cherry blossom is intimately identified with Japanese culture. For centuries it has been...

80 years after the 31st Olympiad launched in Rio de Janeiro, the first Games to take part in South America, the facilities for an earlier, highly controversial competition are rusting and crumbling on the outskirts of Berlin. Held three years after ...

The "High Street" is a peculiarly British notion that doesn't necessarily denote a physical street in the traditional sense but describes the commercial and cultural centre of villages, towns and cities across the country where locals congregate to ...

The elderly gentlemen who frequent the many coffee bars in Asmara, Eritrea's capital, dressed in European suits, fashionable hats and hand-made leather shoes refer to themselves as "Asmarinos". Proud of their city and their country's history, they ...

On the day that British Prime Minister Theresa May officially informed Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council of the UK's intention to leave the European Union, Piotr Malecki walked the streets of London, meeting individuals from all ...

Hawaii, with its benign climate, all-star tourism marketing team and exotic fruits seems like a picture-perfect paradise convincing even the most cautious of individuals that life's every dream will come to fruition with a change of zip code. ...

On a recent trip to the United States, Panos photographer Graeme Williams tried to get to the root of the apparent contradictions in the country's psyche that have led to the deep divisions within the society. Born in South Africa, Graeme was puzzled...

"I see my trip to Idomeni on the Greek - Macedonian border as a turning point in my experience of following and reporting on the Syrian diaspora across the Middle East and Europe. Last year I visited Izmir in Turkey where hundreds of Syrian refugees...

Working with the British Red Cross in Sicily, Alfredo D'Amato met individuals, couples and whole families of migrants from countries across West and East Africa who had undertaken incredibly dangerous and potentially deadly journeys across countless ...

Because of its uniquely suitable microclimate, the Greek island of Chios is a major producer of mastic, or 'Arabic gum' - the resin of the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus). The sticky sap has been used medicinally since antiquity and is said to work ...

"Palaces of Memory" is a journey into India through the Indian Coffee Houses, a national network of worker-owned cafes which can be found in cities throughout the sub-continent. The Coffee Houses simultaneously speak of a Post-Independence optimism ...

The Mauritanian town of Chinguetti, situated toward the end of one of the few paved roads that radiate out of the capital Nouakchott, was once considered among Islam's holiest cities - the city of libraries. Founded in the 12th century as a fortified...

Australian healthcare company Ansell is the world's second biggest condom manufacturer and its Thai factory, based in the southern city of Surat Thani, is its most productive site, churning out over 1 billion units a year. Different countries ...

Almost a fifth of China is desert and the deserts have been encroaching on farmland, towns and villages at a rate of almost 2,500 square kilometres per year, making vast tracts of the interior unusable and uninhabitable. Vast sandstorms regularly ...

The Black Sea - mysterious, menacing and mythical - is at the heart of centuries of warfare, turmoil and historical drama. A mixture of totalitarian regimes and young democracies, a melting pot of ethnic minorities, the Black Sea region is a point of...

Coal used to be West Virginia's 'gold' but the industry has been in decline of late and the Obama administration's 'Clean Power Plan', which aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by a third by 2030, has caused coal exports from the state to collapse. ...

Detroit was the birthplace of America's Middle Class. With the advent of the motor car the city grew rich, workers were well paid and were able to enjoy the fruits of their labour in the bustling city that attracted migrants from across the US and ...

The economy of Youngstown flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with a number of large steel works providing the vast majority of industrial jobs. The steel boom created tens of thousands of jobs, drawing in migrants from across the ...

I spent most of 2015 documenting the exodus from Syria, following four young men from the Syria-Turkey border to Greece, through the Balkans and on to Germany. I saw how Europeans opened their homes to refugees and donated food, clothes and their ...

I spent most of 2015 documenting the exodus from Syria, following four young men from the Syria-Turkey border to Greece, through the Balkans and on to Germany. I saw how Europeans opened their homes to refugees and donated food, clothes and their ...

I spent most of 2015 documenting the exodus from Syria, following four young men from the Syria-Turkey border to Greece, through the Balkans and on to Germany. I saw how Europeans opened their homes to refugees and donated food, clothes and their ...

I spent most of 2015 documenting the exodus from Syria, following four young men from the Syria-Turkey border to Greece, through the Balkans and on to Germany. I saw how Europeans opened their homes to refugees and donated food, clothes and their ...

I spent most of 2015 documenting the exodus from Syria, following four young men from the Syria-Turkey border to Greece, through the Balkans and on to Germany. I saw how Europeans opened their homes to refugees and donated food, clothes and their ...

On 6 June 1992 the village of Miljevina, 64 km southeast of Sarajevo, was shelled and attacked by Serbian paramilitaries. Six year old Elvis, his sister Elvira, their parents and their grandmother had to flee their home. Another 22,500 Muslims, the...

For the first time in history more than half the world's people live in cities. Build Hope in the City, a powerful outdoor photographic exhibition produced by overseas aid agency Concern Worldwide and Panos Pictures, documents the reality of urban ...

This series of portraits looks at a slice of life for women in Iraq in the wake of Islamic State (ISIS). In Autumn 2016 the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces, supported by a US-led coalition, converged on Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, ...

Parisians are still trying to come to terms with the events of 13th November 2015. The Living still come, many days later, to the sites of the killing or to the Place Du Republique, symbol of Parisian defiance and strength. They gaze with a ...

'Life at the ballet is naturally alluring. Ballet dancers must live in absolute discipline, and from childhood they encounter many defeats, not to mention the constant fear of being rejected. They live and breathe to deliver sublime art. In this ...

On Friday, 13 November 2015, starting at 9.20pm, three teams of terrorist professing allegiance to the so-called Islamic State (IS) carried out shooting and bombing attacks on six targets across Paris and the surrounding suburbs. Using assault ...