World News for Students of English

08-12-2021 15:00

Many people know that Bryan Adams is a singer, but he is a successful photographer, too.

Last week, he introduced the Italian company’s Pirelli 2022 calendar, and he shot the photographs. Unfortunately, Adams tested positive for COVID-19 when he arrived in Italy, so he unveiled the calendar virtually.

For the calendar, Adams took pictures of some music stars, for example, Iggy Pop, Cher, and Rita Ora. The calendar is Pirelli’s 48th edition, and since the first edition in 1964, 37 photographers worked on the calendars.

In the past, Pirelli’s calendars were usually full of models, but this started to change a few years ago, and nowadays, the photographs are more artistic. There is a limited number of calendars every year, and Pirelli usually gives them to its buyers as a gift.

Difficult words: unveil (to show or introduce something publicly for the first time), virtually (using the internet and not being somewhere personally), edition (the total number of copies of a book, newspaper or other material which someone publishes at one time).

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