Steve McCurry, Photographer, New York

Description

This wide-angle landscape photograph by Steve McCurry captures workers tending to lush green rice crops within flooded terraced fields. The stepped agricultural terraces carve deeply into the steep slopes of expansive mountain valleys under an overcast sky filled with low-hanging clouds. In the foreground, figures bend over to work in the shallow water, while another individual walks along a narrow ridge. The composition emphasizes the vast scale of the terraced farming system and the dramatic interplay between water, vegetation, and rugged earth.

Style

Documentary, Horizontal, Earthy, Grainy

Techniques

Analogue / film, Natural light

Color

Background

Mountain

Context

Editorial