Attributed to Steve McCurry
"Porbandar, Gujarat 1983 - Tailor carries his sewing machine through monsoon floodwaters - Steve McCurry
On the Monsoons - I did a story on the monsoon. One of the dramatic things of the monsoon season is there’s an incredible heat build up. The wind blows, the dust storms come up. So the monsoon is a relief.
I was in the city of Porbandar photographing the monsoon during one of the floods and I was up to my chest in the water. As I was wading through the streets I saw this man walking down with a sewing machine on his shoulder and it seemed so odd and so surreal.
Everyone started alerting this man that there’s a photographer around, and telling him to smile for the camera. He has this rusted sewing machine which is from his shop and it’s destroyed and yet he’s up to his neck in the water with this smile. The best part of the story was that the German manufacturer of the machine saw this picture and tracked him down and sent him a new sewing machine."
Attributed to Steve McCurry
"Porbandar, Gujarat 1983 - Tailor carries his sewing machine through monsoon floodwaters - Steve McCurry
On the Monsoons - I did a story on the monsoon. One of the dramatic things of the monsoon season is there’s an incredible heat build up. The wind blows, the dust storms come up. So the monsoon is a relief.
I was in the city of Porbandar photographing the monsoon during one of the floods and I was up to my chest in the water. As I was wading through the streets I saw this man walking down with a sewing machine on his shoulder and it seemed so odd and so surreal.
Everyone started alerting this man that there’s a photographer around, and telling him to smile for the camera. He has this rusted sewing machine which is from his shop and it’s destroyed and yet he’s up to his neck in the water with this smile. The best part of the story was that the German manufacturer of the machine saw this picture and tracked him down and sent him a new sewing machine."