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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 –
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Poster Sales fund ImagineAsia’s initiatives in
Afghanistan and Ukraine.
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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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Overcoming: Our Greatest Glory

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.

– Helen Keller

 Porbandar, India 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
– Confucius

A man recycles bombshells into flowerpots in Kayan, Afghanistan

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things –
of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness,
our patience and our resilience, and in the end,
our ultimate desires.
– Sheri L. Dew

Indonesia

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

A good half of the art of living is resilience.
– Alain de Botton

Java, Indonesia


Make-believe conquers the tools of war as children clamber over an abandoned anti-aircraft gun in Beirut, Lebanon, 1982. These tools of war became an improvised playground demonstrating the resilience of children. No matter how dire the situation, how dangerous the environment, children need to play. Whether it is splashing in puddles or climbing on abandoned tanks, their world of make-believe is almost as important as food and shelter.

Goa, India

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
– Bern Williams

A blind musician at the temple of Angkor Wat, Angkor, Cambodia

This Tibetan man from Lhasa would walk five miles every day around the local Monastery as part of his Buddhist meditation practice.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is
always to try just one more time.
– Thomas Edison


After the monsoon, this Indonesian woman attempts to rescue her rice plants. With the blackened earth flattened by the retreating floodwaters and trees stripped of their leaves, it is a bleak scene. The woman’s efforts are necessary for the continued subsistence of her family.

Students attend class in a partially destroyed building in central Kabul, Afghanistan.

Herat, Afghanistan

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
– Victor Hugo

Two young boys carry wood to their homes for the family’s cook fire.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
– Albert Bandura

Man carries his injured friend in Kabul, Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan, was once known as a city of gardens. Afghans of all ages love to grow flowers and use them to decorate everything from their homes to their bicycles.

India

Baluchistan, Pakistan

A doctor with his patient in hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan

India

 

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Conversation: Food for the Soul

Spain

Conversation is food for the soul.
– Mexican Proverb

Korea

Turmi, Ethiopia

Rajasthan, India

Madagascar

Wadi Rum, Petra, Jordan

Lourdes, France

 Barcelona, Spain

Tanzania, Africa

Pristina, Kosovo

 The character of a man is known from his conversations.
– Menander, 342 – 292 BCE

Morocco

Baluchistan, Pakistan

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice.
– Michel de Monta

Afghanistan

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another’s observation, not overturning it.
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, 1803 – 1873

Skopje, Macedonia

Orvieto, Umbria

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