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Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility

The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism

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Nick Hedges, photographer who changed the way we see homelessness, has died aged 81

Hedges was known for his conviction that photography can be a powerful tool for social change, and for his campaigns with the homelessness charity Shelter

Post-Minimalist sculptor Joel Shapiro has died, aged 83

Best known for his looming, stylised figures assembled from wood beams, Shapiro changed the language of Minimalism with a distinctly personal flair

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Remembering Rosalind Savill, the porcelain expert who transformed the Wallace Collection

During her 19-year tenure as its director, she turned a sedate institution into a vibrant tribute to the culture of 18th-century France

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Remembering Colin Renfrew, a lover of Modern art who revolutionised archaeology

His championing of radiocarbon dating and other new scientific approaches demonstrated the untenability of the conventional explanation for cultural change

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Frank Auerbach's son is busting myths about the late artist

The late artist was actually quite sociable and had stopped producing "thick" paintings decades ago, says his only child

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Remembering Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow, the Unesco boss who fought for the dispossessed

The headline-making director-general of Unesco, who clashed with Reagan and Thatcher, died recently at the age of 103