Patrícia de Melo Moreira / 4SEE

Nudist tourism is growing vastly in the last several years in Portugal. Excellent climate, desert beaches and the beautiful scenery, attracts more and more tourists from all across Europe to the portuguese naturist resorts and campings.

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Tsafrir Abayov / 4SEE

Three week VIP Protection special training is designed for elite protection personnel and Management from the Governmental and Civilian European sectors. Doron Israeli trainers illustrate to European VIP bodyguards in Herzeliya Olympic shooting range.

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António Luís Campos / 4SEE

Rushing in investigation, Portugal is making a huge bet in renewable energies developing technologies in many battlefields at once. The country is one of the european leading nations in the field of research.

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Mário Proença / 4SEE

The worldwide growing concerns with climate change, global warming and desertification are raising awareness for the environmental and ecological importance of the cork oak tree forests. The World Wide Foundation (WWF), who’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, has issued a report, in London, UK, on May 15, 2006, that alerts for the danger of a possible 3/4 loss of the Oak tree forests worldwide within ten years, threatening the economical and environmental crisis.

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Pedro Guimaraes / 4SEE

International Expo 2008 under the theme “Water and Sustainable Development” in spanish city of Zaragoza will be held from June 14th to September 14th. With visionary architecture, the Expo 2008 promises to change Aragon’s capital city.

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Goncalo Fernandes Santos / 4SEE

Fatima Lopes is the most internationally acclaimed portuguese fashion designer and is the only one to participate in Paris Pret-a-Porter Fashion Week. Grown in Madeira, the same island where Cristiano Ronaldo was born. Fátima Lopes is also know for her jewelry designs and in 2000 she appeared in a Paris catwalk dressed with the most expensive bikini in the world made with gold and diamonds. Besides that, Fátima Lopes is also the designer of the portuguese national soccer team suits.

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Luis Filipe Catarino / 4SEE

Inside the walled Medina of Fez daily life has not changed too much in the last 500 years. The world’s car free area with its narrow streets is still the domain of men at work: beating patterns into brass trays, painting pottery, shaping copper basins, carving cedarwood, dying leather and driving donkeys with heavy burden. In their breaks fasis sit in street cafés and drink a glass of mint tea, and when the muezzin calls in the mosque, they disappear  to pray.

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Luis Filipe Catarino / 4SEE

Western Australia is the less visited state in the land Down Under. And it is the biggest one occupying one third of the island-continent.
Mostly desert, WA has treasures like the cosmopolitan Perth, the beehived Purnululu NP, and the giant trees of the southwest. For 6500km Luis Filipe Catarino travelled alone in a motorvan registering his photo impressions of the trip always running north until he reached the Top End at Darwin, in the Northern Territory.

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© Rodrigo Cabrita

Photographer Rodrigo Cabrita won the first prize in the category “Daily Life Feature” in Visão Photojournalism Award with a story about an homeless recovery center near Lisbon. The story was shot last December.

Visão is the most important photojournalism award in Portugal and in the past eight years the number of participants has been growing. The Grand Prize was won by Augusto Brázio from Kameraphoto colective. 4SEE congratulates all the winners.

© Rodrigo Cabrita / 4SEE

Spectators don’t see the goals, and the players can’t scream, but Underwater Hockey is a spectacular sport that’s gaining more fans.
In April the 15th World Championship will be held in Durban, South Africa.

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