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The Power of Nature

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2011 by stevemccurry

 Please scroll to the bottom for the UnpublishedPortrait of the Week

 

 

Japan

 

 

Japan

 

The word tsunami comes from two Japanese words: tsu, which means harbor, and nami, which means wave.

 

 Japan

 

 

Japan

 

 

 In March  2011, Japan suffered from one of most violent earthquakes in history.  

 

 

Japan

 

 

 Its coastline shifted by as much thirteen feet to the east.

 

 

Japan

 

 The tsunami spawned by the earthquake destroyed virtually everything in its wake.

 

 

Japan

 

 

Duckweed carpets the water in a girl’s front yard at Bojonegoro, Java, Indonesia

 

 

Covering the monsoons  entailed day after day wallowing in filthy
water up to my
chest, or standing in the street in a torrential downpour, my shoulder aching from the umbrella
propped in my armpit, and an impatient assistant wishing he were somewhere else.

 

 

Porbandar, Gujarat, India

 

I spent four days, in the flooded city of Gujarat, India, wading around the streets in waist-deep water that was filled with
bloated animal carcasses and other waste material.

 

 

Porbandar, Gujarat, India

 


The fetid water enveloped me leaving a greasy film over my
clothes and body.  Every night I returned to my flooded hotel,
empty except for a nightwatchman, and bathed my shriveled feet in disinfectant.

 

 

Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, India

 

 

 

Goa, India

 

 

 Hurricane Katrina which hit New Orleans in August  2005,  was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. 
Almost two thousand people died in the hurricane and the flood which followed.

 

 

New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

 

 

 

New Orleans, United States

 

 

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

 

 

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

 

 

On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami killed over 230,000 people in fourteen countries.

 

  Four days after the tsunami hit Sri Lanka’s coastline
A man prays for the victims 

 

UNSEEN / UNPUBLISHED PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

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