If you take photos every day, it's difficult to remember the circumstances of each encounter. SMC: It's sometimes hard to remember details about photographs that I took thirty or forty years ago. If you are observant and you can work quickly, if you have a keen sense of observation and a keen sense of timing, you can obtain interesting results.ĭo you know most of the stories behind your pictures? Do you take notes about the people that you photograph? Other times it takes a bit longer for the person to reveal their personality. You don't necessarily need to wait very long. SMC: It's depends on how you respond to a situation and how long you spend with somebody. Hannah: How do you establish a rapport with your subjects and how do the portraits reflect this relationship? Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2014 © Steve McCurry (1) A photograph will reveal more accurately a person's personality. You can exaggerate something, you can interpret it in your own way. If you are painting or drawing a subject, you can go any in any direction you want.
I would say that you can get a much more accurate view of someone's personality with that instant photograph. I would take the exact opposite position on that. Steve McCurry (SMC): A photograph can reveal a lot about an individual. How would you as the world's most accomplished portrait photographer respond to this observation? A photograph only captures an instant, whereas a drawing allows you to appropriate the face of the other and make it your own.” ( “Portrait, Self-portrait”). Hannah Starman for Arteez: I recently interviewed the curator of an exhibition of drawings devoted to portrait and self-portrait, Frédéric Pajak, and he said: “A portrait grabs us.
W abi-sabi, Beauty in Imperfection, presented at the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva 2, the photographer answered our questions about portrait photography, the Afghan girl, his current show and the beauty of imperfection. On the occasion of the exhibition Steve McCurry & Barbier-Mueller Museum.
McCurry won numerous prestigious international awards, including the London Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Robert Capa gold medal, National Press Photographers Award and four World Press Photo first prize awards. His iconic photograph of the Afghan girl with piercing green eyes appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic and became one of the most recognizable photographic portraits ever taken. Steve McCurry has been one of the most accomplished photographers for the past forty years, telling visual stories of war and conflict, ancient and contemporary cultures, beautifully imperfect landscapes and striking portraits. The article features an interview conducted by Hannah Starman with world famous photographer Steve McCurry. The following article was written by Hannah Starman and published in the Swiss arts magazine Arteez 1 as a Portrait of the Month in July 2021.
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