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 trei rated 5 weeks ago - .
Above all, I feed on the colours of Asia: deep henna, hammered gold, curry and saffron, rich black lacquer and painted-over rot. As I reflect back on it, I see it was the vibrant colour of Asia that taught me to see and write in light. Go down that alley. Follow that child. Find t...
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- trei rated 5 weeks ago
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Above all, I feed on the colours of Asia: deep henna, hammered gold, curry and saffron, rich black lacquer and painted-over rot. As I reflect back on it, I see it was the vibrant colour of Asia that taught me to see and write in light. Go down that alley. Follow that child. Find the brightness of life in the dusty, never-painted drab of Calcutta. Wait for the light at its deepest and most intense like a farmer's rain. It is amazing now, in the camera's third eye, Asia's dust spins such golden clarities and abundance, such undersea depths.
It is this unbroken continuity with the past and ancient beliefs that still takes me back to Asia, and it's a quality unique in the world. In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, nursing, crude dentistry, even bodily functions. In the secular West, where nothing is sacred, everything seems hidden; yet in Asia, where nothing is hidden, everything is sacred.
What makes for a powerful image - much like Asia itself - is the confluence of all these elements within the rude stream of life. It is colour and structure all subordinated into the sacred right then of the only-offered-once. More than twenty years later, I still keep shooting in South and Southeast Asia, because the place - like the light and belief that powers life - is inexhaustible.
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- morelda rated 6 months ago
- South Southeast, a picture gallery by Steve McCurry.
- rapidgirl rated 16 months ago
- The Blue City. Special significance for me today.
- albatrosss rated 29 months ago
- South Coast, Sri Lanka 1995, photo by Steve McCurry
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