Steve McCurry, Women shoppers dressed in the traditional burqa stand in front of a shoe shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1992, digital c-print, 40 x 60 inches/101.6 x 152.4 cm; © Steve McCurry; photo courtesy of Sundaram Tagore Gallery. The Sundaram Tagore Gallery has just opened the first solo exhibition of Steve McCurry in Singapore entitled “The Iconic Photographs”. The photographer became famous after having his photograph of an Afghani girl portrayed on the cover of National Geographic in 1985. McCurry came to Singapore for the opening of his exhibition and shared some of the stories behind his pictures with the press and the public. Steve McCurry, Boy in mid-flight, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, 2007, digital c-print, 40 x 60 inches/101.6 x 152.4 cm; © Steve McCurry; photo courtesy of Sundaram Tagore Gallery. More than a photographer, Steve McCurry is a storyteller. As he pointed it out at the press preview, for him ‘content trumps form.’ He uses a pre-visualization process, wandering around and seeking for interesting places. When he finds it, he sets the camera and then ‘waits for things to happen’. This was particularly the case of the picture Boy in Mid-Flight Jodhpur, India (2007) which has a beautiful composition, capturing the [...]
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