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One of the world's foremost photographers Sebastião Salgado will receive a major prize from the Sony World Photography Awards 2024.

Soma Ghosh , April 16th, 2021 09:53 Darius Marder's bold debut Sound of Metal asks the viewer to understand rock and deafness as two contradictory things – but it's a complex history, finds Soma Ghosh ‘Life is noise,’ reads the strapline to Darius Marder’s directorial debut Sound of Metal, an unorthodox drama about a drummer who loses his hearing. It opens with screeching, turbulent guitar feedback, as a grunge heavy metal duo perform a quaking gig. Lou (a nervy performance by Olivia Cooke), lead singer and guitarist, screams orgasmically: ‘Purify!’ Her lover, Ruben (an acting ma...

A mournful sadness blights my existence: cheese makes me ill. Since a severe bout of listeria poisoning 15 years ago, I can't so much as taste a bit of Stilton on an oat cracker. My dodgy digestion even denies me that glory of pub dinners, a Cheddar ploughman's with lashings of pickle. In Britain, to be unable to eat cheese is, in many ways, a kind of exile. As a passionate book by cheesemonger Ned Palmer — the paperback edition of which has become a quirky hit in the build-up to Christmas — makes plain, ours is a nation built on cheese. We've been enjoying it since the Stone Age, for aro...