The Steve McCurry exhibition, on show this winter at Caumont-Centre d’art, brings together the 80 most emblematic works by the celebrated contemporary American photographer Steve McCurry, as well as recent images never before exhibited in France. Born in 1950, Steve McCurry has captured iconic and poignant images all over the world, always centred on the human experience, providing a striking testimony to our times.

This exhibition covers almost 40 years of the photographer’s career and illustrates his many travels, from India to Japan, via Pakistan and South-East Asia. Afghan Girl, the famous shot of Sharbat Gula, photographed by McCurry in 1984 in a refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, has become an absolute icon of world photography. Between ancestral traditions and contemporary cultures, McCurry’s photographs immortalise portraits and landscapes of both documentary and artistic value.

Brought together for the first time in Aix-en-Provence, these exceptional photographs take visitors on a symbolic journey, a truly universal story of war and poetry, joy and suffering, surprise and irony. From an innovative thematic perspective, the exhibition will focus on the photographer’s fascination with the monsoon, and will conclude with a striking projection paying tribute to the humanist artist’s moving vision of the beauty of our world. McCurry describes himself as a “visual storyteller” and has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the National Press Photographers Award and the World Press Photo Prize.

This exhibition is organised in partnership with Orion57.