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Scottish Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
I'm a fear expert, here's how to cure your worst phobias
Scroll down to see how to get your hands on tickets WIN TICKETS I'm a fear expert, here's how to cure your worst phobias A TOP hypnotist is holding a special event to help cure Scots of their phobias. Fraser Penman from East Kilbride, was training to be a primary school teacher when he became obsessed with Derren Brown. Advertisement 1 Fraser Penman is performing this week And since discovering his hypnotic talents, he's been performing as Penman — The Imaginator. The psychological influencer will now hold a special event on Thursday to help terrified folk get over their fears of things like spiders and snakes. He uses innovative visualisation techniques to change your mindset in just a matter of minutes. By speaking to your subconscious on a deeper level, the certified hypnotherapist and mind reader can help you face your fears head on. Advertisement And we have 17 pairs of tickets up for grabs for the event. Fraser, 30, said: "Everybody can be hypnotised, it's just to what degree. 'They say younger people are more susceptible, but I've had 70-year-old women giving it laldy on the stage. 'Being hypnotised feels like the air that you breathe. It's different for everybody. Advertisement "But the best way to describe it is like you're almost daydreaming.' To be in with a chance of winning one of 17 pairs of tickets to the show, at the Alona Hotel, next door to Amazonia at M&Ds, simply answer the following question. People say I'm not fit to be a mother after 'abandoning' my sick child for 6 months - but I have an extreme phobia What is Arachnophobia a fear of? A. Snakes Advertisement B. Spiders C. Birds Email your answer and your name, address and daytime contact number to win@ Please put FRASER PENMAN in the email subject header. Competition closes at 2pm tomorrow, May 28. Advertisement
Gulf Today
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Legendary French-Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado dies at 81
French-Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, famed for his immense body of work depicting wildlife, landscapes and people around the world, died on Friday aged 81, announced the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member. The academy said it was "deeply saddened to announce the death... of Sebastiao Salgado", describing him as a "great witness to the human condition and the state of the planet". It was his large black-and-white photographs of subjects such as conflicts or the Amazon rainforest that won Salgado the greatest fame and adorned calendars, books and the walls of his fans around the world. Critics accused him of beautifying suffering but Salgado never veered from his aesthetic or his work. Sebastiao Salgado with his wife Lelia Wanick Salgado. AFP "A photographer who travelled the world constantly, he contracted a particular form of malaria in 2010, in Indonesia," his family said in a statement to AFP. "Fifteen years later, the complications of this disease developed into severe leukaemia, which took his life," they added. 'Emblematic figure' Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva described his compatriot as "one of the best... photographers the world has given us". Lula, who learned the news of Salgado's passing at an official event in Brasilia with Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenco, asked attendees to observed a minute's silence for the photographer. Men walk next to a banner from an upcoming exhibition of Sebastiao Salgado displayed at the Casa Firjan cultural centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday. AFP Paris-based media rights campaigners Reporters Without Borders (RSF) paid tribute to an "emblematic figure of documentary photography". "A photographer of all records, Sebastiao Salgado was a keen observer of mankind and nature," it added in a statement online. RSF noted that Salgado had contributed 100 of his own photos to one of the albums it sells to raise money for its works. UNESCO Secretary General Audrey Azoulay saluted "an immense photographer, artist and documentarist whose talent captured the ecological and anthropological upheavals of our era. "His art raised public awareness of often unknown realities such as those of the Amazon and its indigenous peoples," she added in posts to social media. Mostly black and white pictures The photographer leaves a unique legacy of images from his hundreds of journeys through the Amazon rainforest and across the planet, from Rwanda to Indonesia, from Guatemala to Bangladesh, capturing with his lens human tragedies such as famine, wars and mass exoduses. Sebastiao Salgado poses in front of one of the pictures of his 'Amazonia' exhibition in Milan, Italy. AP Salgado conceived photography as "a powerful language to try to establish better relationships between humans and nature", said the French Academy of Fine Arts. He worked almost exclusively in black and white, which he saw as both an interpretation of reality and a way of conveying the fundamental dignity of humanity. Active in the left-wing student movements of the turbulent 1960s, he studied economics and in 1969, he and his wife, Lelia Wanick, fled to France to escape Brazil's military dictatorship. He went on to receive French citizenship. His photos of drought and famine in countries such as Niger and Ethiopia landed him a job at renowned photo agency Magnum in 1979. A visitor sits in front of a series of children portraits in the exhibition 'Exodus' by Sebastiao Salgado in the Kunsthalle (Art Hall) in Erfurt, central Germany. File/Associated Press Photography "is a way of life," he told AFP in 2022, on a trip to Sao Paulo to present his exhibition "Amazonia," the product of seven years shooting the world's biggest rainforest. A dedicated climate activist, he was a fierce critic of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) for the far-right leader's push to open the Amazon to agribusiness and mining. Salgado also founded an environmental organisation called Instituto Terra to revive disappearing forests in his home state, Minas Gerais, a successful project joined by more than 3,000 landowners.
Arab Times
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Arab Times
Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado dies at 81
SAO PAULO, May 24, (AP): Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, died at 81 from leukemia, his family said Friday. Local media reported he died in Paris, where he lived for more than 55 years. Salgado's style is marked by black-and-white imagery, rich tonality, and emotionally charged scenarios. Many of his best pictures were taken in impoverished communities, especially in the Amazon and in Africa. He was recently experiencing undisclosed health problems. "Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane, and ecological world,' Salgado's family said in a statement. "As a photographer who traveled the globe continuously, he contracted a particular form of malaria in 2010 in Indonesia while working on his Genesis project. Fifteen years later, complications from this illness developed into severe leukemia, which ultimately took his life,' the family added. Earlier, Instituto Terra, which was founded by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, and the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member, announced his death, but did not provide details on the circumstances or where he died. "Sebastião was more than one of the best photographers of our time,' Instituto Terra said in a statement. "His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, (brought) the power of transformative action.' Composer Laurent Petitgirard, secretary of the French Academy of Fine Arts, said in a statement that Salgado, one of his colleagues, was "remarkable for his moral integrity, his charisma, and his commitment to serving art.' "He leaves behind a monumental body of work,' Petitgirard said about a photographer who received many awards, and was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States in 1992 and to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Salgado's main works include the recent "Amazonia' series, "Workers,' which shows manual labor around the world, and "Exodus' (also known as "Migrations' or "Sahel'), which documents people in transit, including refugees and slum residents. Salgado had his life and work portrayed in the documentary "The Salt of the Earth' (2014), co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2015. One of Brazil's most famous artists, though, always insisted he was "just a photographer.' Salgado moved to France in 1969 as Brazil endured a military dictatorship. He said in different interviews he was then a leftist militant against the regime. It was in Paris in 1973 that he started to fully dedicate his time to photography and develop his black-and-white style, years after his economics degree. His first professional works were for the agency Sygma in 1974. The following year, he documented the lives of peasants and Indigenous peoples in Latin America for the Gamma agency. Five years later, he joined Magnum, a top brand for photographers, of which he later became president. Salgado left it in 1994 to found Amazonia Images with his wife, an agency that exclusively handles his work. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who received Salgado's support throughout his political career, requested a minute of silence during a ceremony in the capital city of Brasilia to honor "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, photographer the world has ever produced.' "His nonconformity with the fact that the world is so unequal and his stubborn talent in portraying the reality of the oppressed always served as a wake-up call for the conscience of all humanity,' Lula said. "Salgado did not only use his eyes and his camera to portray people: he also used the fullness of his soul and his heart.' France's President Emmanuel Macron posted a picture of Salgado's in Alaska in his Instagram profile as a tribute to the photographer, who also had French citizenship. Salgado and his wife, whom he married in 1967, raised their two sons, Juliano and Rodrigo, in France. His friends said every morning that he could he would breathe the air near the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. His death also caused commotion in the country he adopted. François-Bernard Mâche, a major French composer who worked with Salgado for his exhibition "Aqua Mater' in Paris, said the Brazilian was an "authentic and warm man'. "His gaze transformed landscapes, and beyond the spectacular, he reached a kind of inner truth (…). With him, photography fulfilled one of its highest ambitions by going far beyond mere appearances,' Mâche told The Associated Press. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said Salgado was passionate about their city. "Tonight I cry for a very close friend, a rare soul; a loyal, discreet and sensible man. His death moves us profoundly. He already leaves us an immense void,' Hidalgo said. "Paris, the city that loved him, will give him the honors he deserves.' An exhibition of about 400 of Salgado's works is currently on display in the city of Deauville, in northern France. Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, which published several of Salgado's works over the last decades, said he recently canceled a meeting with journalists in the French city of Reims due to health problems. He was scheduled to attend an exhibition with works by his son Rodrigo for a church in the same city on Saturday, the daily reported. Salgado and his wife had been working since the 1990s to restore part of the Atlantic Forest in Minas Gerais. In 1998, they turned a plot of land they owned into a nature reserve, according to Salgado's biography on the French Academy of Fine Arts' website. That same year, they created Instituto Terra, which promotes reforestation and environmental education. So far, Instituto Terra has planted more than 3 million trees in the city of Aimores, which lies in what was once a somewhat deserted region in the countryside of the Minas Gerais state. The photographer was born there in 1944. In an undated interview with Forbes Brasil published on Thursday, Salgado said that attending the exhibition of his works in Deuville felt like a stroll through his life. "How many times in my life have I put my camera to the side and sat down to cry? Sometimes it was too dramatic, and I was alone. That's the power of the photographer; to be able to be there,' Salgado said. "If a photographer is not there, there's no image. We need to be there. We expose ourselves a lot. And that is why it is such an immense privilege.'
The Advertiser
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Award-winning photographer Sebastiao Salgado dies at 81
Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at 81, his family says. Salgado died in Paris, where he lived for more than 55 years, local media reported. Salgado's style was marked by black-and-white imagery, rich tonality, and emotionally charged scenarios. Many of his best pictures were taken in impoverished communities, especially in the Amazon and in Africa. "Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane, and ecological world," Salgado's family said in a statement. "As a photographer who travelled the globe continuously, he contracted a particular form of malaria in 2010 in Indonesia while working on his Genesis project. Fifteen years later, complications from this illness developed into severe leukaemia, which ultimately took his life," the family added. Earlier, Instituto Terra, which was founded by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, and the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member, announced his death. "Sebastião was more than one of the best photographers of our time," Instituto Terra said in a statement. "His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, (brought) the power of transformative action." Composer Laurent Petitgirard, secretary of the French Academy of Fine Arts, said in a statement that Salgado, one of his colleagues, was "remarkable for his moral integrity, his charisma, and his commitment to serving art." "He leaves behind a monumental body of work," Petitgirard said about a photographer who received many awards, and was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States in 1992 and to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Salgado's main works include the recent Amazonia series, Workers, which shows manual labour around the world, and Exodus (also known as Migrations or Sahel), which documents people in transit, including refugees and slum residents. Salgado had his life and work portrayed in the documentary The Salt of the Earth (2014), co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2015. One of Brazil's most famous artists, though, always insisted he was "just a photographer." Salgado moved to France in 1969 as Brazil endured a military dictatorship. He said in different interviews he was then a leftist militant against the regime. It was in Paris in 1973 that he started to fully dedicate his time to photography and develop his black-and-white style, years after his economics degree. His first professional works were for the agency Sygma in 1974. The following year, he documented the lives of peasants and Indigenous peoples in Latin America for the Gamma agency. Five years later, he joined Magnum, a top brand for photographers, of which he later became president. Salgado left it in 1994 to found Amazonia Images with his wife, an agency that exclusively handles his work. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who received Salgado's support throughout his political career, requested a minute of silence during a ceremony in the capital Brasilia to honour "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, photographer the world has ever produced." Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at 81, his family says. Salgado died in Paris, where he lived for more than 55 years, local media reported. Salgado's style was marked by black-and-white imagery, rich tonality, and emotionally charged scenarios. Many of his best pictures were taken in impoverished communities, especially in the Amazon and in Africa. "Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane, and ecological world," Salgado's family said in a statement. "As a photographer who travelled the globe continuously, he contracted a particular form of malaria in 2010 in Indonesia while working on his Genesis project. Fifteen years later, complications from this illness developed into severe leukaemia, which ultimately took his life," the family added. Earlier, Instituto Terra, which was founded by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, and the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member, announced his death. "Sebastião was more than one of the best photographers of our time," Instituto Terra said in a statement. "His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, (brought) the power of transformative action." Composer Laurent Petitgirard, secretary of the French Academy of Fine Arts, said in a statement that Salgado, one of his colleagues, was "remarkable for his moral integrity, his charisma, and his commitment to serving art." "He leaves behind a monumental body of work," Petitgirard said about a photographer who received many awards, and was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States in 1992 and to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Salgado's main works include the recent Amazonia series, Workers, which shows manual labour around the world, and Exodus (also known as Migrations or Sahel), which documents people in transit, including refugees and slum residents. Salgado had his life and work portrayed in the documentary The Salt of the Earth (2014), co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2015. One of Brazil's most famous artists, though, always insisted he was "just a photographer." Salgado moved to France in 1969 as Brazil endured a military dictatorship. He said in different interviews he was then a leftist militant against the regime. It was in Paris in 1973 that he started to fully dedicate his time to photography and develop his black-and-white style, years after his economics degree. His first professional works were for the agency Sygma in 1974. The following year, he documented the lives of peasants and Indigenous peoples in Latin America for the Gamma agency. Five years later, he joined Magnum, a top brand for photographers, of which he later became president. Salgado left it in 1994 to found Amazonia Images with his wife, an agency that exclusively handles his work. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who received Salgado's support throughout his political career, requested a minute of silence during a ceremony in the capital Brasilia to honour "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, photographer the world has ever produced." Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at 81, his family says. Salgado died in Paris, where he lived for more than 55 years, local media reported. Salgado's style was marked by black-and-white imagery, rich tonality, and emotionally charged scenarios. Many of his best pictures were taken in impoverished communities, especially in the Amazon and in Africa. "Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane, and ecological world," Salgado's family said in a statement. "As a photographer who travelled the globe continuously, he contracted a particular form of malaria in 2010 in Indonesia while working on his Genesis project. Fifteen years later, complications from this illness developed into severe leukaemia, which ultimately took his life," the family added. Earlier, Instituto Terra, which was founded by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, and the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member, announced his death. "Sebastião was more than one of the best photographers of our time," Instituto Terra said in a statement. "His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, (brought) the power of transformative action." Composer Laurent Petitgirard, secretary of the French Academy of Fine Arts, said in a statement that Salgado, one of his colleagues, was "remarkable for his moral integrity, his charisma, and his commitment to serving art." "He leaves behind a monumental body of work," Petitgirard said about a photographer who received many awards, and was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States in 1992 and to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Salgado's main works include the recent Amazonia series, Workers, which shows manual labour around the world, and Exodus (also known as Migrations or Sahel), which documents people in transit, including refugees and slum residents. Salgado had his life and work portrayed in the documentary The Salt of the Earth (2014), co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2015. One of Brazil's most famous artists, though, always insisted he was "just a photographer." Salgado moved to France in 1969 as Brazil endured a military dictatorship. He said in different interviews he was then a leftist militant against the regime. It was in Paris in 1973 that he started to fully dedicate his time to photography and develop his black-and-white style, years after his economics degree. His first professional works were for the agency Sygma in 1974. The following year, he documented the lives of peasants and Indigenous peoples in Latin America for the Gamma agency. Five years later, he joined Magnum, a top brand for photographers, of which he later became president. Salgado left it in 1994 to found Amazonia Images with his wife, an agency that exclusively handles his work. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who received Salgado's support throughout his political career, requested a minute of silence during a ceremony in the capital Brasilia to honour "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, photographer the world has ever produced." Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at 81, his family says. Salgado died in Paris, where he lived for more than 55 years, local media reported. Salgado's style was marked by black-and-white imagery, rich tonality, and emotionally charged scenarios. Many of his best pictures were taken in impoverished communities, especially in the Amazon and in Africa. "Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane, and ecological world," Salgado's family said in a statement. "As a photographer who travelled the globe continuously, he contracted a particular form of malaria in 2010 in Indonesia while working on his Genesis project. Fifteen years later, complications from this illness developed into severe leukaemia, which ultimately took his life," the family added. Earlier, Instituto Terra, which was founded by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, and the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member, announced his death. "Sebastião was more than one of the best photographers of our time," Instituto Terra said in a statement. "His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, (brought) the power of transformative action." Composer Laurent Petitgirard, secretary of the French Academy of Fine Arts, said in a statement that Salgado, one of his colleagues, was "remarkable for his moral integrity, his charisma, and his commitment to serving art." "He leaves behind a monumental body of work," Petitgirard said about a photographer who received many awards, and was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States in 1992 and to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Salgado's main works include the recent Amazonia series, Workers, which shows manual labour around the world, and Exodus (also known as Migrations or Sahel), which documents people in transit, including refugees and slum residents. Salgado had his life and work portrayed in the documentary The Salt of the Earth (2014), co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2015. One of Brazil's most famous artists, though, always insisted he was "just a photographer." Salgado moved to France in 1969 as Brazil endured a military dictatorship. He said in different interviews he was then a leftist militant against the regime. It was in Paris in 1973 that he started to fully dedicate his time to photography and develop his black-and-white style, years after his economics degree. His first professional works were for the agency Sygma in 1974. The following year, he documented the lives of peasants and Indigenous peoples in Latin America for the Gamma agency. Five years later, he joined Magnum, a top brand for photographers, of which he later became president. Salgado left it in 1994 to found Amazonia Images with his wife, an agency that exclusively handles his work. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who received Salgado's support throughout his political career, requested a minute of silence during a ceremony in the capital Brasilia to honour "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, photographer the world has ever produced."
West Australian
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Award-winning photographer Sebastiao Salgado dies at 81
Brazilian photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado, known for his award-winning images of nature and humanity, has died at 81, his family says. Salgado died in Paris, where he lived for more than 55 years, local media reported. Salgado's style was marked by black-and-white imagery, rich tonality, and emotionally charged scenarios. Many of his best pictures were taken in impoverished communities, especially in the Amazon and in Africa. "Through the lens of his camera, Sebastião tirelessly fought for a more just, humane, and ecological world," Salgado's family said in a statement. "As a photographer who travelled the globe continuously, he contracted a particular form of malaria in 2010 in Indonesia while working on his Genesis project. Fifteen years later, complications from this illness developed into severe leukaemia, which ultimately took his life," the family added. Earlier, Instituto Terra, which was founded by Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado, and the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member, announced his death. "Sebastião was more than one of the best photographers of our time," Instituto Terra said in a statement. "His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, (brought) the power of transformative action." Composer Laurent Petitgirard, secretary of the French Academy of Fine Arts, said in a statement that Salgado, one of his colleagues, was "remarkable for his moral integrity, his charisma, and his commitment to serving art." "He leaves behind a monumental body of work," Petitgirard said about a photographer who received many awards, and was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States in 1992 and to the French Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Salgado's main works include the recent Amazonia series, Workers, which shows manual labour around the world, and Exodus (also known as Migrations or Sahel), which documents people in transit, including refugees and slum residents. Salgado had his life and work portrayed in the documentary The Salt of the Earth (2014), co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. The film was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2015. One of Brazil's most famous artists, though, always insisted he was "just a photographer." Salgado moved to France in 1969 as Brazil endured a military dictatorship. He said in different interviews he was then a leftist militant against the regime. It was in Paris in 1973 that he started to fully dedicate his time to photography and develop his black-and-white style, years after his economics degree. His first professional works were for the agency Sygma in 1974. The following year, he documented the lives of peasants and Indigenous peoples in Latin America for the Gamma agency. Five years later, he joined Magnum, a top brand for photographers, of which he later became president. Salgado left it in 1994 to found Amazonia Images with his wife, an agency that exclusively handles his work. Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who received Salgado's support throughout his political career, requested a minute of silence during a ceremony in the capital Brasilia to honour "one of the greatest, if not the greatest, photographer the world has ever produced."
