As the world's population shifts from the countryside to the cities, the urban areas need to expand in order to hold the influx of people. One could go to the empty pueblos in the countryside to explore this shift. Another way to document this ...
Sierra Leone is about to overtake Liberia as the country worst affected by West Africa's devastating Ebola epidemic that has claimed close to 6,000 lives across the region according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Almost a fifth of the ...
With Greece entering its 6th year of recession, tens of thousands of small businesses have been forced to close and many more are likely to go the same way. The Greek economy has shrunk by 25% in the last 5 years and this economic pressure is highly ...
Property prices across London continue to rise sharply and many historically poor areas, often inhabited by immigrants, are now being targeted by property developers keen to ride the wave of inner city gentrification. Brixton in South London sits at ...
'I'm a pilot and a photographer. Side Effects is a documentary photographic project about the complicated relationship between humans and nature. It was shot from a paraglider or a gyroplane some 150 m (500 feet) above the ground. I mainly focus on ...
Wildlife poaching is a highly lucrative enterprise across various African countries and some of the most valuable animals, such as elephants, live in and around some of the most troubled regions of the continent. Militia like the Janjaweed in Sudan ...
Tucked between the Tibetan Plateau to the north and India to the south, west and east, Bhutan lies entirely within the Eastern Himalayas. Slightly smaller than Switzerland, 51% of its land is protected, the highest percentage of any nation in Asia. ...
In recent years, journalists and humanitarian organisations have been largely unable to work in Iraq due to the volatile security situation in the country. During this time, car bombs, shootings, kidnappings, sectarian strife and generalised violence ...
Christianity first came to Iraq in the first century AD. Iraq's Christians are one of the longest continuous Christian communities in the world. Throughout their long history in the region, they have been persecuted, threatened and massacred many ...
Exploring the mysterious, watery world hidden beneath London's bridges and quays, Crispin Hughes has captured the unseen world between the tides an empty, wild place in the heart of London. The images, each taking in 360 degrees, capture the play ...
Over a period of twenty years working for UNICEF, Giacomo Pirozzi has travelled and photographed in 105 countries. His new book is a visual representation of the rights specific to children that are defined by the United Nations Convention on the ...
Britain's leading charities come together in a unique photographic exhibition produced by Panos Pictures to challenge world leaders to deliver their promises. In September 2005 the United Nations gathered for a summit to review progress on the eight ...
'At the beginning of the year I visited Tokyo to work on a small project of portraits of commuters. Little did I know about the terrible events that would befall Japan two months later. The idea was to produce a series of observations of people going...
Once a sleepy backwater of the communist bloc, Mongolia is now host to the biggest resource bonanza in the world. Deep within its soil lie some of the largest un-tapped deposits of coal and mineral wealth in the world. Now it is opening its doors ...
El Salvador has been the second most murderous country in the world for a number of years. Though still overshadowed by Honduras' prolific record in violent death, the violence is usually linked to the vile legacy of a 12 year civil war that ended in...
The advantages of China's huge Three Gorges Dam are as great in the eyes of its builders as are the disadvantages in the eyes of its critics. Proponents say the $30 billion edifice will tame the dangerous Yangtze, which regularly bursts its banks, ...
The 53rd Vuelta a Colombia took place against a backdrop of civil war and violence. The bicycle race is guarded along its entire route by heavily armed Colombian soldiers as it crosses provinces controlled variously by the Revolutionary Army of Colombia...
The baseball stadium is full. Everybody from the small coastal city of Baracoa seems to have turned out for the opening ceremony of the 43rd Vuelta a Cuba, the island's answer to the Tour de France. In Soviet style, the riders are honoured for their ...
The Lord's Resistance Army, which claims to be fighting for a state ruled according to the Ten Commandments, has terrorised the northern provinces of Uganda since 1987, abducting 20,000 children and forcing 1.6 million people to flee their homes. ...
Since splitting from Africa and India, the island of Madagascar has been geographically distinct for about 70 million years. This has put it on a different evolutionary course resulting in an incredible diversity of flora and fauna, much of it ...
Sourcing fuel has been a major problem for the 106,000 Bhutanese refugees living in southern Nepal. The forests in the Jhapa and Morang districts where they live could never sustainably provide the firewood needs of such a large population, and until ...
HIV has swept through communities in South Africa, changing the shape of the family as mothers and fathers die from AIDS. The impact on children is dramatic, but too often those affected by AIDS and poverty become invisible to the wider community and the...
In North-Eastern Kenya a humanitarian disaster is taking place. Each month, thousands of refugees cross the border from neighbouring Somalia to escape the ongoing violence and desperate living conditions in that benighted country. There is one road ...
Following the departure of Tunisia's strongman Zine El Abedine Ben Ali in early January and the drawn-out showdown between President Mubarak and anti-government protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, on 17 February 2011 it was Libya's turn. After ...
Once the most stable and prosperous of West African nations, Cote d'Ivoire has seen in the 21st century with a series of internal conflicts following a coup against the then president Henri Bedi in 1999. As in so many other parts of Africa, ethnicity...
What would you do if the place you call home was torn apart by violence? How would you cope if floods or drought destroyed your crops and your family went hungry? If you had to flee suddenly, what would you take with you? Working in partnership with ...
In the barren plains of northern Jordan, just 10 miles from the Syrian border, lies the Zaatari refugee camp where close to 150,000 Syrians have found shelter after fleeing across the border from their homeland which has been gripped by one of the ...
As Britain commemorated 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade, Panos produced an exhibition to reveal how human trafficking is a bitter reality for thousands of women, men and children in the UK today. Slave Britain artfully documents the ...
How can you cut your carbon footprint by half? It might seem impossible, but take a short ferry ride from the centre of Stockholm and you may just find the answer. The district of Hammarby Sjostad, a former brownfield site on the edge of a lake, is fast ...
As the UK prepared for a general election on May 6th widely seen as the most important in a generation, party leaders criss-crossed the country in search of votes. Wherever they went, a Panos photographer was not far behind. This is a selection of ...
Paul Weinberg conceived and curated the exhibition Then & Now for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. It featured the work of eight South African documentary photographers, all of whom were associated with the legendary ...
For centuries the Indian sub-continent has been the last redoubt of the hirsute; a reliquary for the beards and moustaches of epochs past. Not so long ago every Indian office, factory or farm had its collection of Soup Strainers, French Forks, Recumbent ...
It's an apocalyptic scene. As far as the eye can see stretches a flattened landscape sodden with cracked mud. Zigzagging pathways of rocks and roof tiles laid down by former residents indicate where it is safe to walk. The jagged remains of crumbling ...
Surrounding the gritty industrial town of Dhanbad is a region rich in coal, vital to India's burgeoning energy and steel industries. Entire communities of scavengers scratch a living recycling leftover coal lumps, often found in the slag dumped by ...
In the winter months of December and January, when the plains of North India are awash with fog and icy winds, the country's wedding season reaches full fury. The colour and vibrancy of these events - which often last for days - are increasingly becoming...
Known as the "Spanish Chinatown" and omprising around 800 factories covering 1.5 million square metres, the Cobo Calleja industrial zone in Fuenlabrada on the outskirts of Madrid is the largest Chinese wholesale hub in Europe, raking in around 870 ...