FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 29, 2014 CONTACT: Paul Bilyeu, 813.222.1050 ─ [email protected] The David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts presents Extreme Planet with Carsten Peter, Photographer Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, at 7 p.m. Ferguson Hall at the Straz Center Regularly priced tickets are $25 *** TAMPA, Fla. — The Straz Center for the Performing Arts presents Photographer Carsten Peter’s Extreme Planet on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, at 7 p.m. in Ferguson Hall, as the second installment in the fifth season of the National Geographic LIVE! speaker series funded in part by The Joy McCann Foundation and the Tampa Bay Times. The series showcases the writers, photographers, filmmakers, scientists, explorers and adventurers who bring the world home. Carsten Peter, a World Press Photo award winner and regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, specializes in going to extremes: scuba diving in a glacier on Mont Blanc, crossing the Sahara on a camel, caving in Borneo. He searches for wild places where his survival depends on his wits and his skills as a technical climber, paraglider, caver, diver and canyoneer. He is enthusiastically obsessed with devising innovative photographic techniques to capture never-beforeseen images from some of the scariest environments on the planet. His many adventures include braving toxic caverns and acid waterfalls to shoot within the deepest ice shafts on Earth, rappelling into active volcanoes with turbulent lava lakes and superheated thermal caves and breaking altitude records while flying his motorized paraglider. In addition to his World Press award—for his coverage of tornadoes while storm-chasing in the U.S. West— he has received an Emmy® Award for his videography from inside an active volcano in the South Pacific. His images have been published in National Geographic and other magazines. Regularly priced tickets for the Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, 7 p.m., presentation by Carsten Peter are $25 and may be purchased by calling 813.229.STAR (7827) or 800.955.1045 outside Tampa Bay, in person at the Straz Center Ticket Sales Office or online at www.strazcenter.org. Handling fees will apply. For more information about the Straz Center for the Performing Arts and its upcoming events, please visit the Straz Center’s website at www.strazcenter.org. Events, days, dates, times, performers and prices are subject to change without notice. PAC2015-073 The David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts and its programs are funded in part by the City of Tampa; the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners; the Tourist Development Council/Hillsborough County; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts