Winner of numerous awards, American photographer Steve McCurry made the history of documentary photography with his portrait of Sharbat Gula, a green-eyed Afghan teenager he met in 1984 in a refugee camp in Pakistan.
Published on the cover of National Geographic the following year, this famous image is exhibited among dozens of others in a retrospective that the Caumont art center in Aix-en-Provence is devoting this winter to this star of the Magnum agency. .
A visual storyteller
The exhibition covers forty years of career, retracing the photographer’s travels through numerous countries such as Japan, Burma, and especially India, whose colors he tirelessly captures.
Controversial for having staged certain images and practicing digital retouching, the one who defines himself as a “visual storyteller”rather than as a photojournalist, reveals a new aspect of his work: his fascination with the monsoon.
Exhibition visible at the Caumont art center in Aix-en-Provence from November 8, 2024 to March 23, 2025.
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