During the year I spent following the monsoon in a dozen countries, I learned to see it as a critically important event,
and not the disaster it had first seemed.
Farmers experience the monsoon as an almost
religious experience as they watch their fields come back to life after being parched for half the year.
Anticipation
Fizzy, frothy, fickle rain
Resurrection
For months there is no rain, and then there is too much.
Half the world’s people survive at the whim of the monsoon.
Monsoon History
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
The air is wet, soaks
into mattresses, and curls
In apparitions of smoke,
Like fat white slugs furled
Among the timber
Or silver fish tunnelling
The damp linen covers
Of schoolbooks, or walking
Quietly like centipedes,
The air walking everywhere
On its hundred feet
Is filled with the glare
Of tropical water.
Again we are taken over
By clouds and rolling darkness.
Small snails appear
Clashing their timid horns
Among the morning glory
Vines.
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Please check out Steve’s current and upcoming exhibitions:
The Eyes of Humanity
Currently on Display until October 21, 2021
Ernst Leitz Museum
Wetzlar, Germany
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Wabi Sabi: Beauty in Imperfection
Currently on Display until August 23, 2021
Musée Barbier-Mueller
Genéve, Switzerland
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The World of Steve McCurry
Currently on Display until October 10, 2021
Waagnatie
Antwerp, Belgium
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On Color
Currently on Display until September 19, 2021
Messe Graz
Graz, Austria
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Terre Alte
Currently on Display until September 19, 2021
Palazzo delle Albere
Trento, Italy
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The World of Steve McCurry
Currently on Display until October 20, 2021
Maag Hall Zurich / Eventhall
Zurich, Switzerland
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