Steve McCurry in Perugia
From Sunday, 11th of April until Sunday 5th of September 2010
240 shots by Steve Mc Curry ( Philadelphia, 1950), one of the masters of photography of our century are displayed at the National Gallery of Umbria at Perugia from April 10th until the 5th of September to celebrate 30 years of career. The exhibition arrives at Perugua after the great success in Milan at Palazzo della Ragione.
Steve McCurry’s career reached a turning point in the 1980s when, disguised in native garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes. These images won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, an award dedicated to photographers exhibiting exceptional courage and enterprise.
Since then McCurry has published books and covered areas of international and civil conflict, including Burma, Yemen, Kashmir, and Cambodia. He has won many of photojournalism’s highest awards.
“Most of my photos are grounded in people,” says McCurry. “I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face.”
