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Every Day is Earth Day

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

– Khalil Gibran

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Jane Goodall

“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

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

– Greta Thunberg

“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

“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

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

– Khalil Gibran

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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 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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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

Please visit Steve’s website to place an order for a poster!

To place an order click on ‘Continental U.S.’ or ‘International’, whichever applies to your shipment destination.

https://stevemccurry.com/posters

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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.

Steve’s book, Animals, published by Taschen, is available here:
https://bit.ly/3aPmbl1

We welcome and appreciate your comments.

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Overcoming: Our Greatest Glory

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date March 29, 2020
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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

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

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.

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.

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.

A doctor with his patient in hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan

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Our Faces: Unpublished Portraits

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date February 21, 2020
17 Comments on Our Faces: Unpublished Portraits

Portraits reveal a desire for human connection,
a desire so strong that people who know they will never see me again open themselves to the camera, all in the hope that at the other end someone will be watching, someone who will laugh or suffer with them.

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Sunshine, Food and Medicine

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date July 18, 2019
13 Comments on Sunshine, Food and Medicine

Flowers are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
– Luther Burbank, botanist, horticulturist

Flowers have been an important part of cultures for thousands of years.
People use them to celebrate, mourn, mark special occasions, and
adorn themselves.

When you have only two pennies left in the world,
buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~ Chinese Proverb

An Afghan version of “beating swords into plowshares …”
This man in Kayan, Baghlan Province, was
making flowerpots from shells intended to kill and maim.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals.
Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression;
some are pensive and diffident;
others again are plain, honest and upright, like the
broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
– Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers: A Discourse of Flowers

CAMBODIA-10083 — Oaxaca, MexicoAngkor Wat, Cambodia

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~ Claude Monet

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him
through the graceful bending of their stems and the
harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms.
Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
– Auguste Rodin

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.
There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret,
like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
~G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

People from a planet without flowers would think
we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat