Alice in Colourland

A fruit vendor waits for customers during the monsoon in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photo: Narendra Shrestha/EPA.

The Flying Umbrella

An installation entitled Umbrella Sky Project created by Portuguese artist Patricia Cunha and composed with pink umbrellas is on display in Paris, France. Photo: Benoit Tessier/Reuters.

Leisure

A tourist holds an umbrella onboard a tourist boat on the river Spree in Berlin, Germany. Photo: AFP/Odd Andersen.

Desert Water

A woman with an umbrella wades through a water-logged street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Salim Reza/新华通讯社 (Xīnhuá News Agency).

Umbrellas in the Sun

And finally, after purifying our House with Crying Windows from the filthy fluids of Arcovazzi, we took a day of holiday, wandering around the art town of Pietrasanta, Italy just in time to admire the view of more than one thousand of colourful, floating umbrellas covering almost one km above the main centre street. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

The Colour Code

北京 (Běijīng), China: A pedestrian uses her umbrella to protect against the sun. Photo: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images.

Yellow Pages

香港岛 (Hong Kong), China: Pedestrians use umbrellas to shield themselves from the rain as they walk across a main road. Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty Images.

Under the Rainbow

北京 (Běijīng), China: A woman walks in the rain under her rainbow umbrella. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP.

Out of the Blue

Gaza City, Gaza: A Palestinian worker at a beachside coffee house decorates its terrace with colourful umbrellas as part of decorations for Ramadan. Photo: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images.