Tag: Kashmir

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

Trees are Sentinels
Guarding, Nurturing, Protecting
Bastions of Dignity
Breathing life
Providing shelter
Asking for nothing
Sacrificing everything

-K. Earle

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

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

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

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

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

-John Muir

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

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

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

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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 Gift of Grandparents

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the
lives of little children.

-Alex Haley

A grandparent is a best friend, teacher, cheerleader, and counselor.

There is no grandfather who does not
adore his grandchild.

-Victor Hugo

Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends, and
hardly ever our own grown children.

-Ruth Goode

The best place to be when you’re sad is a
grandparent’s lap.

Grandchildren are God’s way of
compensating us for
growing old.

-Mary H. Waldrip

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the
first grandchild.

-Welsh Proverb

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the
fullness of their grace.

-Christopher Morley

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A STATEMENT BY STEVE MCCURRY

“I can think of few greater humanitarian
organizations than the EMERGENCY
hospitals in Afghanistan which have
operated continuously throughout the
turbulence of the past few years.
When many fled the country, Emergency
doubled down on their commitment to care
for Afghans as they have since 1999.”
– Steve McCurry

Starting on August 15, we are teaming up with Ishkar to raise funds by selling the print below at a special, one-time price to show Afghanistan that we have not forgotten.
More information coming soon at http://www.ishkar.com

All profits from the print sale will go to EMERGENCY’S
work in Afghanistan.
https://en.emergency.it/

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EXHIBITIONS

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ICONS

Pier ⅔ Walsh Bay
Suite 3/13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, 2000
Sydney, Australia

Wed, Apr 12, 2023 – Sun, Aug 13, 2023

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STEVE McCURRY

Istanbul Sinema Müzesi
Kuloğlu, İstiklal Cd. No 131/A
Istanbul, Turkey

Sat, Apr 15, 2023 – Sun, Jul 30, 2023

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CHILDREN

Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy

Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023

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ICONS

Museo Franz Mayer
Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico
Mexico City, Mexico

Wed, Jun 7, 2023 Wed, Sep 20, 2023
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STEVE McCURRY

Semper Depot
Lehárgasse 6-8
Vienna, Austria

Fri, Jul 7, 2023 – Sun, Sep 24, 2023

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THE EYES OF HUMANITY

Leica Galerie Stuttgart
Calwer Straße 41
Stuttgart, Germany

Fri, Jul 14, 2023 – Sat, Sep 30, 2023

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

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Upstairs, Downstairs

Burma

For centuries, stairs have symbolized journeys, rites of passage,
transitions, and stages of life in art, literature, and music.

Tibet

My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
Upon the breathless starlit air,
‘Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
Fix every wandering thought upon
That quarter where all thought is done:
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul
– William Butler Yeats

Italy

Stairs are climbed step by step.
– Turkish Proverb

Kashmir

Children’s stories tell tales of boys and girls discovering treasures upstairs in the attic and fearing what is downstairs in the basement.

Afghanistan

Faith is taking the first step even when
you don’t see the whole staircase.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Burma

Morocco

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe,
grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts,
emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
– John Steinbeck

Jodhpur, India

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be
through Earth’s loveliness.
– Michelangelo

Italy

Mt. Popa, Burma
The stairway climbs a 300-foot lava plug crowned by Buddhist temples.

Serbia

Mother to Son
Well, Son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor —
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now —
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
– Langston Hughes

New York, September 12, 2001

Japan

New York

Halfway down the stairs
is a stair
where i sit.
there isn’t any
other stair
quite like
it.
i’m not at the bottom,
i’m not at the top;
so this is the stair
where
I always
stop.

Halfway up the stairs
Isn’t up
And it isn’t down.
It isn’t in the nursery,
It isn’t in town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head.
It isn’t really
Anywhere!
It’s somewhere else
Instead!
– A.A. Milne

Italy

Haiku
Steep steps
Uneven treads
Life
– bmv

India

Iraq

Afghanistan

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Eloquence of the Eye

The soul has an interpreter – often an unconscious
but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.
– Charlotte Bronte

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye,
one seeing, one knowing, one love.
– Meister Eckhart, 1259 – 1327

These eyes tell the stories of
children around the world.
They speak of war, deprivation, and loss.

From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
– William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost

There is a road from the eye to heart
that does not go through the intellect.
– G. K. Chesterton

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
– Sholom Aleichem

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-Henri Bergson

The eyes are the most powerful social signalers that we have and hence are sometimes called the windows of the soul.
– Glen Wilson

Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
– Heraclitus of Ephesus, 535 – c. 475 BCE

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
– Henry David Thoreau

Eyes have their own universal language, and
no interpreter is needed.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul,
and the eyes mark its intentions.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 – 43 BCE

The face is the mirror of the mind,
and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
– St. Jerome

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at Steve McCurry Studios.

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Sail Away

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do…

…so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
– Moslih Eddin Saadi

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
– Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go.
I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

Earth’s crammed with heaven.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The world is a book and those who
do not travel read only one page.
– St. Augustine

Go far. Stay long. See deep.
And may the sun rise twice before you sleep.
– Unknown

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.
– Kurt Vonnegut

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined,
self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is,
not the way you imagine it.
– Mark Jenkins

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Every Day is Mothers’ Day

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date May 5, 2020
39 Comments on Every Day is Mothers’ Day

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
– Robert Browning

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
– Mahatma Gandhi

All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
– Abraham Lincoln

Mother is the name for God in the lips
and hearts of little children.
– William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother: the most beautiful word
on the lips of mankind.
—Kahlil Gibran

Artists have been depicting the special bond between mothers and their children for hundreds of years.

Relationships can be difficult to describe, and sometimes an image tells the story better than words. One of the most powerful and unforgettable photos depicting a mother and her children in the history of photography is Dorothea Lange’s photograph of a destitute mother and her children taken in 1936.

Dorothea Lange said in an interview about the picture, “She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.”

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law…
– Agatha Christie

Doris Mae Stevens McCurry holding Steve, Baltimore, MD

Music: Reverie by Scott Buckley

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Carnival of the Animals

The Carnival of the Animals is a musical composition by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
-Mahatma Gandhi

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
– Indian Proverb

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
-Cecil Frances, 1848

A horse is worth more than riches.
– Spanish Proverb

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
-Russian Proverb

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.
– John Donne

Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
– Anatole France

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The music is from the final movement of the
the composition called the Swan.

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Generations: A Family Affair

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date February 28, 2020
25 Comments on Generations: A Family Affair

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and
the heart weakens, that children understand;
their stories, and all their accomplishments,
sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers,
stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Generations pass like leaves fall from our family tree. Each season new life blossoms and grows benefiting from the strength and experience of those who went before.

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.
– Henri Nouwen

In truth a family is what you make it. It is made strong, not by number of heads counted at the dinner table, but by the rituals you help family members create, by the memories you share, by the commitment of time, caring, and love you show to one another, and by the hopes for the future you have as individuals and as a unit.
– Marge Kennedy

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