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Every Day is Earth Day

Nepal

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

– Khalil Gibran

Nepal
New Zealand

“Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”

– Robert Frost

United States
South Africa

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to
decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

– Jane Goodall

Greece
Italy

“The whole world is, to me, very much “alive” – all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life – the things going on-within them.”

– Ansel Adams

Antarctica
Iceland

“When enough people come together,
then change will come and
we can achieve almost anything.”

– Greta Thunberg

Tahiti
New Zealand

“The environment is where we all meet;
where we all
have a mutual interest;
it is the one thing all of us share.”

– Lady Bird Johnson

Afghanistan
Tibet

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Kenya
Philippines

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your
bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

– Khalil Gibran

Tibet

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E X H I B I T I O N S

STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –  Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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Rhapsody in Blue

Italy
Antarctica

Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

– Robert Frost

Tahiti
Fiji
Mongolia

I have found myself dwelling on the color blue and the way our planet’s elemental hue, the most symphonic of the colors, recurs throughout our literature as something larger than a mere chromatic phenomenon — a symbol, a state of being, a foothold to the most lyrical and transcendent heights of the imagination.

– Maria Popova

Togo
Japan
India

“Blue is light seen through a veil.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Burma
United States
Afghanistan

Blue is the typical heavenly color…
The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest…”

– Wasily Kandinski

France
India
Cambodia

“I saw in a blue haze all the world poured
flat and pale between the mountains.”

– Annie Dillard

Uzbekistan
Morocco
Mali

“We love to contemplate blue,” Goethe wrote, “not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.”

Italy
Afghanistan

Blue is the unspoken language of universality,
seamlessly weaving through the expanse of
sky and the depths of water.

Philippines

“No water, no life. No blue, no green”

– Sylvia Earle

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E X H I B I T I O N S

STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –  Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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The Kingdom of Trees

Between heaven and earth, between mankind and the stars, lies the kingdom of trees; between that which gives us food, housing and work on the one hand and that which is incomprehensible
and unaccountable on the other.

Trees in the History of Civilization

Kashmir

Trees are Sentinels
Guarding, Nurturing, Protecting
Bastions of Dignity

Breathing life
Providing shelter
Asking for nothing
Sacrificing everything

-K. Earle

Tahiti
Namibia

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them,
can learn the truth.
They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach
undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

-Hermann Hesse, Wandering

Korea
United States

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary
than a beautiful, strong tree.

-H. Hesse, ibid

Thailand

Trees, proud standing people
stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying
glorious attention, breathing light.
strength shelter timeless confidence
bending and firm comforting …

-Wallace Stevens

Mali
Italy

Planting trees early in spring,
we make a place for birds to sing in time to come.
How do we know? They are singing here now.
There is no other guarantee that
singing will ever be.

-Wendell Berry

Madagascar
Japan

No wonder the hills and groves were
God’s first temples…

-John Muir

Sahel

I hear the wind among the trees
Playing the celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

India
New Zealand

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire,
in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a
dancing tongue of flame
to warm the heart.

-Hal Borland

Italy
Ethiopia

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

-John Muir

Easter Island

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E X H I B I T I O N S

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 –  Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –  Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 – Sat, Mar 30, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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The Power of Red

Namibia
United States

Red has always been my color
because red stands out. 
Red is one of the strongest colors, its blood,
it has a power with the eye.
That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well…
In fact, I use red in all of my paintings.
– Keith Haring

India
Guatemala
India

Red is the greatest clarifier – bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red – it would be like becoming
bored with the person you love. 
– Diana Vreeland

Japan
India

Red is uplifting. 
– J. Lewis

Myanmar

Red protects itself. No color is as territorial.
It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
~ Derek Jarman

Tibet

India

When I haven’t any blue, I use red.
– Pablo Picasso

India
Tibet

I love red so much,
I almost want to paint everything red.
– Alexander Calder

Afghanistan

Japan
Myanmar

Red, of course, is the color of the interior of our bodies.
In a way it’s inside out, red. 
– Anish Kapoor

Russia
Myanmar

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
– Bill Blass

Jordan
Italy

Red can communicate all sorts of messages.
Red symbolizes passion, action, energy, happiness,
authority, strength, and confidence…
– Adam Glassman

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E X H I B I T I O N S

ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 – Wed, Mar 27, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 –  Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –  Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 – Sat, Mar 30, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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Creating Meaning

Devotion requires action. It’s more than a feeling.
It’s an act that demonstrates one’s
commitment to something greater than themselves.

India
Brazil

“The stronger our devotion, the greater the blessings. But to have no devotion is like hiding oneself in a house with all the doors and shutters closed. The sunlight will never get in.”

– Dilgo Khyentse

India
Yugoslavia

“Fidelity to human order makes devotion possible.”

– Wendell Berry

Sri Lanka
United States
Afghanistan

“We all require devotion to something more than
ourselves for our lives to be endurable.”

– Atul Gawande, M.D.

Germany
India

“The price of a successful relationship is devotion.
Devotion is, essentially, a commitment to
something we value.”

– Donna Goddard

Macedonia

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.


McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.


Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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EXHIBITIONS

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 – Wed, Mar 27, 2024

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CHILDREN

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Sat, Nov 25, 2023  – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 –  Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –  Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY

Thu, Feb 8, 2024 – Sat, Mar 30, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024

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Everyone’s Favorite Topic

Since the weather is to people what the waters are to fish, their preoccupation with it serves a unique purpose, constituting a social phenomenon all its own.

Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Australia

The boat sails on, buffeted by the winds, tossed by the waters, drenched by the heavens—its inhabitants subject not only to the physical effects of the weather but to its metaphysical sway as well.

Tibet
India
Nepal

People love weather as an unrivaled spectacle and fear it as an unrivaled destroyer. One day they curse the rain, the next they dream of walking in it barefooted with a lover.

India
Ecuador
Ukraine

No wonder, then, that man’s great dream
has been some day to control the weather.

Afghanistan
India
Pakistan

Every year brings fresh reminders of the weather’s power over human life and events in the form of horrifying tornadoes, hurricanes and floods.

United States
Burma/Myanmar
India

If weather were as predictable as holidays and eclipses,
what in the world would everyone talk about?

Tibet
Korea

All quotes by Frank Trippett – Time Essay

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EXHIBITIONS

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 –  Wed, Mar 27, 2024

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CHILDREN

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Sat, Nov 25, 2023  – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 –  Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –   Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY

Thu, Feb 8, 2024  Sat, Mar 9, 2024

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ICONS

Seaworks Maritime Precinct
The Main Shed
Melbourne, Australia

Wed, Feb 28, 2024  Wed, May 1, 2024

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Portraits of Friendship

“Wherever we are, it is our friends
that make our world.”
– Henry Drummond

South Africa
Puerto Rico

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.  There is a time for silence.  A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny, and a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
– Gloria Naylor

France
Cambodia
Burma

“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must
undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity,
before it is entitled to the appellation.”
George Washington

Burma
Yemen
Brazil

“What is a friend? 
A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”  
– Aristotle

South Africa
Cuba
Bangladesh

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.”  
– Nigerian Proverb

Tibet
India

“ We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.
As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at
last a drop which makes it run over;
so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one
which makes the heart run over.”
– Samuel Johnson

Namibia
Lebanon
China

“Friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.”  
Aristotle

Ukraine
Afghanistan

Faithful friends are hard to find.”
– William Shakespeare

China
India
Germany

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship.
It is the spiritual inspiration  that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Burma

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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Poster Sales fund ImagineAsia’s initiatives in
Afghanistan and Ukraine.
https://www.stevemccurry.com/posters

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EXHIBITIONS

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 –  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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CHILDREN

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Sat, Nov 25, 2023  – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 –  Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –   Sat, Apr 27, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY

Cavalier Galleries
New York, NY, USA

Thu, Feb 8, 2024  Sat, Mar 9, 2024

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Times of Our Lives

Afghanistan

“Time, which changes people,
does not alter the image we have of them.”
– Marcel Proust

Italy
Afghanistan
Pakistan

“Lost time is never found again.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Portugal
India

“Time has a wonderful way of showing
us what really matters.”
– Margaret Peters

United States
India
Afghanistan

Time is free, but it’s priceless.
You can’t own it, but you can use it.
You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.
Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.
– Harvey MacKay

Poland
Ireland
Iceland

“With endless time, nothing is special.
With no loss or sacrifice,
we can’t appreciate what we have.”
– Mitch Albom

India
France

“The two most powerful warriors are
patience and time.”
– Leo Tolstoy

Russia
Russia


“Time is a created thing.
To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say

‘I don’t want to.’”
– Lao Tzu

Vietnam
United States

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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NEW BOOK
D E V O T I O N

Burma

This powerful collection of images is collected from the entirety of McCurry’s forty-year career traveling to every corner of the globe. From a mosque in Afghanistan to Burma’s Golden Rock; an Easter offering in Paraguay to an elderly couple at Lourdes; a Tibetan monk in India to evangelicals in America’s heartland.
McCurry captures penetrating moments of devotion, loyalty, faithfulness, and dedication.
Reproduced in stunning color, these photographs honor the universal desire to create meaning in the midst of everyday life and offer viewers an opportunity to connect with their own spirituality—whatever form that takes.

More about Devotion here –
https://www.stevemccurry.com/news/steve-mccurry-presents-devotion

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EXHIBITIONS

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ICONS

Loyola University Museum of Art
Chicago, IL, USA

Fri, Oct 20, 2023 –  Thu, Feb 1, 2024

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ON THE ROAD TO THE ORIENT

Polka Galerie
Paris, France

Fri, Nov 10, 2023  – Sat, Jan 20, 2024

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CHILDREN

Palazzo Ducale
Paris, France

Sat, Nov 25, 2023  – Sun, Mar 10, 2024

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ICONS

Arsenali Repubblicani
Pisa, Italy

Mon, Jan 1, 2024 –  Sun, Apr 7, 2024

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STEVE McCURRY : THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica, CA

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 –   Sat, Apr 27, 2024