1985 Photo Contest, Nature, 1st prize
Photographer

Steve McCurry

for National Geographic

01 January, 1984

A banana leaf serves as an umbrella for a boy herding water buffalo, during the monsoon in Kathmandu, Nepal. For half the world's people, monsoons remain life's critical uncertainty with their destructive effects as well as blessings.

About the photographer

Steve McCurry

After graduating from Pennsylvania University, Steve McCurry worked at a newspaper for two years and then left the United States to freelance on the Indian subcontinent. The mate...

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