CAPTION: Dust Storm. Rajasthan, India, 1983.
INDIA-10219.
MAX PRINT SIZE: 60X80
I was in a beat-up taxi traveling through the desert to a town called Jaisalmer on the India-Pakistan border. It was in June, and as hot as the planet ever gets.The rains had failed in this part of Rajasthan for the past thirteen years. I wanted to capture something of the mood of anticipation before the monsoon. As we drove down the road, we saw a dust storm grow -a typical event before the monsoon breaks. For the miles it built into a huge frightening wall of dust, moving across the landscape like a tidal wave, eventually enveloping us like a thick fog. As it arrived, the temperature dropped suddenly and the noise became deafening. Where we stopped, women and children worked on the road -something they are driven to do when the crops fail – now barely able to stand in the fierce wind, clustered together to shield themselves from the sand and dust. I tried to make pictures. The road workers didn’t even notice me. In the strange dark-orange light and the howling wind, battered by sand and dust, they sang and prayed. life and death seemed to hang in precarious balance. – McCurry, Steve. (2000). South SouthEast. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 97.
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