Steve McCurry: Color and light
There is something interesting when you're just looking into the eyes of someone. No expression just eye contact. it's interesting that McCurry tends to shoot most of his portraits with little to no facial expression. In the past we have discussed how eyes are the windows into our soal and I believe that that is something that McCurrys images show. Living in places like the U.S. where we live in individualistic societies and with limited intimate human interaction making eye contact with anyone can be seen as uncomfortable, However the way that Steve's portraits intentionally put you in the place where you have to share a moment with the person in the photograph even for a second. McCurry also does a great job of including cultures from many different parts of the world. In a world full of conflict McCurry photos are great story tellers. it is interesting that one of his first and most popular image of a young girl from Afghanistan shows that creating of bridges to con...
