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Industry | Photography |
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Founded | 1986 |
Founder | Panos London |
Headquarters | London |
Key people | Adrian Evans |
Products | Photojournalism |
Website | www |
Panos Pictures is a photo agency based in London and founded in 1986. It specialises in stories about global social issues [1] for international media and NGOs [2] [3] using photography and video. It also produces exhibitions and long-term documentary projects. As of September 2015, Adrian Evans is its director and has a controlling share in the company. [4] [5]
Panos Pictures began in 1986 as a small independent for-profit photo agency specialising in environmental issues. [6] It was founded and partly owned by environmental charity Panos London (the Panos Institute's London office) out of its photo archive. [7] Adrian Evans joined as director in 1990 and spent five years overseeing its expansion. [8]
Panos London closed in 2013. The Panos Institute, a sister organisation of Panos Pictures, has been renamed Panos Network, a network of five member institutes.
Panos Pictures has at any time a group of twenty of its photographers, called Panos Profile, whom it represents more comprehensively than its wider group of photographers, which it calls Panos Network [2] [9] (this Panos Network should not be confused with the sister organisation described above). [10]