Looking into Steve McCurry's World

La Mirada - Girona 

With just 2 days to closing, I finally made it to the Steve McCurry “La Mirada” Exhibition in Girona.

A wonderful rollercoaster of a journey.

While admiring his work it was obvious, Steve McCurry has had it rough.  

Not by the travelling around the world taking photos but by the feelings being transmitted as the shutter closes. 

You, yourself, take a picture because you feel something, after all that’s why you want to capture that instant.  

Mixed emotions abound in Mr McCurry’s work, and you will feel them all: happiness, hope, pain, despair ... past, present and future.   

I was transfixed by the little boy with the gun against his head; I felt his tears and despair.

I felt even more captivated with the 9/11 pictures.  Having visited Ground Zero, some years after the tragedy but still sensing the horror and loss, I felt the same twinge here in the images.        

  You can’t help but like this guy and especially after learning about his obsessive 17 year quest to find  Sharbat Gula “the Afghan girl”  

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You can be assured that Steve McCurry’s work will make you feel many things

This great photographer feels and so will you.