For subscribers
In a grim world, hope is that waking dream
What sustains us in a divided, oppressive planet? Perhaps art, thoughtful people and acts of kindness.
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
Sebastiao Salgado pictured at the Amazonia exhibition on Nov 19.
ST PHOTO: SHINTARO TAY
In a place usually of solemn business, she wears a gentle smile. We’re at a hospital pharmacy, strangers holding prescriptions, waiting for pills to help fix our misbehaving bodies. She’s a customer but is guiding an elderly couple in the art of cutting tablets. Then she, herself slightly bruised from some procedure, asks how I am doing.
Fine, I say. We talk. Life, you know.
