The Steve McCurry exhibition, presented this winter at Caumont-Centre d'art, brings together the 80 most emblematic works by the celebrated contemporary American photographer, as well as recent images never before exhibited in France. Born in 1950, this creator of iconic and poignant images has set his lens on the world, always centered on the human being, delivering 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 Southeast Asia. The famous shot of Sharbat Gula, the young Afghan woman 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, the photographer's shots immortalize portraits and landscapes of both documentary and artistic value.

Gathered together for the first time in Aix-en-Provence, these exceptional photographs offer a symbolic journey, a true universal story of war and poetry, suffering and joy, surprise and irony. Through a thematic and innovative itinerary, this exhibition evokes the photographer's fascination with the monsoon, a theme rarely tackled until now. The exhibition features recent images never before exhibited in France, and will conclude with a striking projection paying tribute to the humanist artist's moving vision of the beauty of our world. Describing himself as a “visual storyteller”, Steve McCurry has won numerous prestigious awards, including the Robert Capa Medal, the National Press Photographers Award and the World Press Photo Prize.

This exhibition is organized in partnership with Orion57.