Legendary photojournalist Steve McCurry The photos, taken among people of various cultures around the world, emphasize his unparalleled...
Legendary photojournalist Steve McCurry
The photos, taken among people of various cultures around the world, emphasize his unparalleled ability to capture the human soul through a lens.
“For me a portrait is about connection, somehow you connect with a person, visually or emotionally,” McCurry told designboom. “I’ve often believed that a person’s life stories are kind of written on their face. It’s magical, it’s mystical the way you can connect to a person, it’s hard to describe. You know it when you see it.”
An elderly man of the Rabari tribe, Rajasthan, India, 2010
Portrait of a boy from the Suri tribe, Omo valley, Ethiopia, 2013
Shadow play, Preah Khan, Angkor, Cambodia, 1999
Children from the Kara tribe look through windows, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2013
Workers on a steam locomotive, India, 1983
Mumbai, India
India
Sanaa, Yemen
Rajasthan, India
Paraguay
Yangon, Myanmar/Burma
A boy sits on a chair, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2013
A girl in a doorway, Afghanistan, 2003
Robert De Niro in his screening room in Tribeca, New York, USA, 2010
Steve McCurry speaking with men of the Suma tribe, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2012
Camel and oil fields, Kuwait, 1991
Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Portrait from Tagong, Tibet, 1999 (exhibition view at Villa Reale di Monza)
Portrait of a refugee taken in Balochistan, Pakistan, 1981 (exhibition view at Villa Reale di Monza)
Exhibition view of ‘girl with green shawl’, peshawar, pakistan, 2002Ladders infill the hallways, framing a portrait of a welder in a ship-breaking yard taken in mumbai, india, 1994
Installation view of ‘shoeshine boy’, lhasa, tibet, 1999 within the exhibition space of villa reale di monza
Installation view of a portrait of a young boy pointing a gun at his head from alto churumazu, yanesha, peru, 2004
Installation view of a baby wrapped in a blanket from xigaze, tibet taken by mccurry in 1989
Exhibition view of a coal miner smoking a cigarette in puli khumri, afghanistan, 2002
Installation view of mccurry's photo of the world trade center towers on september 11th, 2001
Installation view at villa reale di monza
Installation view at villa reale di monza
Exhibition view of a portrait taken from the surma tribe, omo valley, ethiopia
Images arranged on the gallery floor provide visitors a chance for close investigation
Installation view at villa reale di monza