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Founder of People of Lisbon (200+ episodes) & BalconyTV (100 cities). Telling human stories and building communities.

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Coming up on People Of Lisbon… Keith Harkin @keithharkin.

Born in Derry, Keith is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who spent almost a decade touring the world with Celtic Thunder, before setting out on his own. Along the way Keith has released 11 solo albums and these days, Keith is doing things very much on his own terms.

We hung out with him in Lisbon just before he headed off on his current US tour. The video is coming soon.

In the meantime, here are some behind-the-scenes photographs from the one and only @rita_ansone

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Coming up on People Of Lisbon… Keith Harkin @keithharkin.

Born in Derry, Keith is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who spent almost a decade touring the world with Celtic Thunder, before setting out on his own. Along the way Keith has released 11 solo albums and these days, Keith is doing things very much on his own terms.

We hung out with him in Lisbon just before he headed off on his current US tour. The video is coming soon.

In the meantime, here are some behind-the-scenes photographs from the one and only @rita_ansone

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Coming up on People Of Lisbon… Keith Harkin @keithharkin.

Born in Derry, Keith is an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who spent almost a decade touring the world with Celtic Thunder, before setting out on his own. Along the way Keith has released 11 solo albums and these days, Keith is doing things very much on his own terms.

We hung out with him in Lisbon just before he headed off on his current US tour. The video is coming soon.

In the meantime, here are some behind-the-scenes photographs from the one and only @rita_ansone

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The Man Who Shot Portugal 📸

Ronaldo. Paula Rego. Mourinho. Zé Pedro. Catarina Furtado.

You know every one of these faces.
You've probably never seen the man behind the camera.

Kenton Thatcher. British-born, 35 years in Lisbon, more than 120 portraits of Portugal's most famous people.

"My photographs do not identify time or place. The only thing that identifies the photograph is the person within it."
It started with his father, a quiet man who said it all through a camera.

I followed Kenton through the final day of Sessions at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in April 2025. Standing room only.

Last month, Lisbon awarded him its Municipal Medal of Cultural Merit. Well deserved.

His new exhibition, Lisbon, Silences and Silhouettes, is at Lisbon City Hall until 27 November. It's a different collection, so not every portrait here is on those walls. Want them all? Buy the book. Kenton ( @kenton.thatcher ) approved that line 😄

👉 Send this to someone who loves Portugal.

#KentonThatcher #Lisboa #PortraitPhotography #EnterPortugal #PortugueseCulture

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Apparently I went to a hypnosis summit and accidentally had a feeling. 😂

A brilliant weekend at the inaugural Hypno Summit Lisbon, with people travelling from all over the world for hypnosis, breathwork, self-hypnosis, yoga, massages, learning, laughing and, unexpectedly, a bit of genuine human connection.

Turns out staring into a stranger’s eyes for 60 seconds can tell you rather a lot about yourself.

My takeaway? I need a little more connection in my life.

And possibly less camel toe in public parks.

Thank you to everyone who made the weekend what it was. ❤️

Ronia @rocknrollcoachroni
Stephen @peoplelisbon
@hypnosummit.pt
Wesley @wesmassage

#hypnosummit #hypnosis #hypnotherapy #narcissisticabuse #wellnessjourney

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Coming up this week on People Of Lisbon… meet the rock ’n’ roll lawyer, Luis Alves da Costa @master_mils 🤘⚖️

That’s not to say Luis is a lawyer for rock ’n’ roll stars. He is, in fact, a tax lawyer at our sponsor Fresh @fresh.portugal .

We specifically asked Fresh to give us the most interesting lawyer in the firm.

They gave us Luis.

An AC/DC-loving metalhead. A surfer. A tax lawyer. And definitely someone who stands out from your average idea of what a tax lawyer might look like.

His People Of Lisbon film is coming very soon.

In the meantime, here are some brilliant photos by @rita_ansone. 📸

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Coming up this week on People Of Lisbon… meet the rock ’n’ roll lawyer, Luis Alves da Costa @master_mils 🤘⚖️

That’s not to say Luis is a lawyer for rock ’n’ roll stars. He is, in fact, a tax lawyer at our sponsor Fresh @fresh.portugal .

We specifically asked Fresh to give us the most interesting lawyer in the firm.

They gave us Luis.

An AC/DC-loving metalhead. A surfer. A tax lawyer. And definitely someone who stands out from your average idea of what a tax lawyer might look like.

His People Of Lisbon film is coming very soon.

In the meantime, here are some brilliant photos by @rita_ansone. 📸

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Coming up this week on People Of Lisbon… meet the rock ’n’ roll lawyer, Luis Alves da Costa @master_mils 🤘⚖️

That’s not to say Luis is a lawyer for rock ’n’ roll stars. He is, in fact, a tax lawyer at our sponsor Fresh @fresh.portugal

We specifically asked Fresh to give us the most interesting lawyer in the firm.

They gave us Luis.

An AC/DC-loving metalhead. A surfer. A tax lawyer. And definitely someone who stands out from your average idea of what a tax lawyer might look like.

His People Of Lisbon film is coming very soon.

In the meantime, here are some brilliant photos by @rita_ansone 📸

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Life humbled me.
Not by making me smaller.
By making me look differently at what I thought I was here to do.
Losing someone I loved eventually brought me to laughter.
And the more I learned about laughter, the more I became fascinated by breath.
Every laugh begins with a breath.
And somewhere along the way, I started seeing the shape of a tree in the lungs.
Which made me think about books.
Books come from trees.
And I spend my life writing them.
So I started wondering:
What if I could reverse the process?
What if the stories I write could give something back to the trees they came from?
That's why I want to write a book about laughter that helps plant trees.
And eventually, create a green cemetery, a place where death can return to the earth and become part of something living again.
Because the more lives I've lived,
and the more deaths I've experienced,
the less I think life is about what we become.
Maybe it's about what we leave behind.
And what we allow to grow from it.

#storytellingcontentchallenge
@creatorcollege

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Coming up on People Of Lisbon… something a bit different. And a bit special, really.

This week, we’re turning the camera on Rita Ansone @rita_ansone - the photographic brains behind People Of Lisbon.

For six years, Rita has photographed all the wonderful people we’ve featured. She’s been on the other side of the camera for hundreds of shoots… so we decided it was finally time to tell her story.

Coming later this week.

In the meantime, enjoy some photos from the shoot, taken by… eh… Rita herself. 😂📸 @rita_ansone

#PeopleOfLisbon #RitaAnsone #Lisbon #Photography #Lisboa

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Coming up on People Of Lisbon… something a bit different. And a bit special, really.

This week, we’re turning the camera on Rita Ansone @rita_ansone - the photographic brains behind People Of Lisbon.

For six years, Rita has photographed all the wonderful people we’ve featured. She’s been on the other side of the camera for hundreds of shoots… so we decided it was finally time to tell her story.

Coming later this week.

In the meantime, enjoy some photos from the shoot, taken by… eh… Rita herself. 😂📸 @rita_ansone

#PeopleOfLisbon #RitaAnsone #Lisbon #Photography #Lisboa

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