Steve McCurry
In 1979 he was
the first photographer to go into Afghanistan smuggling film in sewn into his
clothes and he is best known for the picture of the young Afghan girl with
green eyes. He focuses on the human cost of war.
He has an amazing
sense of composition for a picture, giving many of his works a painterly
quality. I loved one from 2006 of a man in Bamiyan Mosque where the main plain
of the picture was a two tone wall in which there was a window through which
you saw a mad reading with a picture on the wall. It became three rectangles
within each other.
He produces
beautiful, insightful portraits particularly those of the people of Tibet taken
from 1999 to 2001. I also loved his portrait of a portrait photographer in
Afghanistan which somehow included McCurry in the photo as you felt a
connection between the two photographers.
My favourite
picture was Clover Gatherers from the Yemen in 1999 as the peoples tall straw
hats were the same colour as the rocks in the background.
Closes on 19
March 2016
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