More Fun and Games

Wodaabe Tribe, Niger

Laughter is by definition healthy.
- Doris Lessing,  Nobel Laureate in Literature

La Fortuna, Honduras

Shanghai Circus, Shanghai, China 

Moscow, Russia 

Perugia, Italy

If music be the food of love, play on.
- William Shakespeare

Havana, Cuba

India

Rajasthan, India

Lucknow, India

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
- W. H. Auden

Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

Mersin, Turkey 

Could we look into the head of a Chess player,
we should see there a whole world of feelings,
images, ideas, emotion and passion.
- Alfred Binet

Jodhpur, India

Peru

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Some people believe football is a matter of
life and death.
I’m very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
- Bill Shankly, English soccer manager.

Maningrida, Australia

Tibet

Young Shepherd during Holi, Rajasthan, India

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
- Immanual Kant

Istanbul, Turkey

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

Mumbai/Bombay, India

 

Buzkashi, Kabul, Afghanistan

Yangon, Myanmar/Burma

They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them.
Golf is more complicated than that.
- Gardner Dickinson

Bangladesh

 

Yemen

 

You must invent your own games and
teach us old ones how to play.
- Nikki Giovanni

Burma/Myanmar

Varanasi, India

Language of Looking

Please scroll to the bottom for the unseen portrait of the week. 

 There are many ways to describe the ways that people look at each other and the world.  We peek, stare, glance, gaze, gape, glare, and peer.  We also examine, contemplate, squint, and observe.

 

 

Jodhpur, India

 

 

 

Yangon, Myanmar/Burma

 

 

Berlin, Germany

 

 

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. 
 - Henry David Thoreau 

 

 

Croatia

 

 

 

Kabul, Afghanistan

 

 

 

 Afghanistan

 

 

 

Kabul, Afghanistan

 

 

 

Thirumullaivayil, India

 

 

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily
symbol of identity. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

 

Train to Peshawar, Pakistan

 

 

Myanmar/Burma

 

 

 Paraguay

 

 

Barkhor Quarter, Lhasa, Tibet

 

 

It’s the way to educate your eyes.  Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.  Die knowing something.  You are not here long.
 - Walker Evans  

 

 

Reina Sofia, National Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain

 

 

If you look at a thing 999 times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it for the 1000th time,
you are in danger of seeing it for the first time.
-  G. K. Chesterton 

 

 

Jaipur, India

 

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn’t need to.
If the thing is there, why, there it is.
- Walker Evans

 

 

A man examines photographs of victims of the Khmer Rouge’s S-21 prison camp, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

 

 Unseen Portrait of the WeekBaluchistan, Pakistan

Unpublished, Unseen 4

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011

 

Over the past thirty years, I have taken nearly a million pictures.   Many of them have been published in my books, in magazines, and seen in my exhibitions, but a majority have never been seen.  Here are a few of those unseen pictures.

 

Myanmar/Burma, 2011

 

 Burma, 2011

 

 

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011

 

  

Tokyo, Japan, 2008

 

 

Day of Ashura, Afghanistan

 

 

France, 1989

 

Madrid, 1995

 

 

Rajasthan, India, 2010

 

 

Myanmar/Burma, 2011

 

 

Myanmar/Burma

 

 

Mumbai/Bombay, 2011

 

 

India

 

 

Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

 

Myanmar/Burma

 

 

India

 

Over the years I’ve come to see  that all of us are basically the same.  There are many more similarities that bind us than differences that separate us.

 

 

Yangon, Myanmar/Burma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unpublished, Unseen 3

Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Burma, 2010

 

So many of you have told me that you enjoy seeing the unpublished work, that I will try to put up previously unseen material more often. Thanks for looking at my blog.

Best,
Steve