9 Feb 2017

Picturing Asia

From Upbeat, 1:40 pm on 9 February 2017

Ian Wedde is curator for the Auckland Arts Festival exhibition Picturing Asia: Double Take. It celebrates the work of two of the world’s leading photo journalists:  New Zealander Brian Brake (1927-1988) and American Steve McCurry (b.1950). McCurry’s 1984 photo Afghan Girl of a 12-year-old in a Pakistan refugee camp featured on the cover of National Geographic and is still one of the world’s best-known examples of photo journalism.

Sharbat Gula, ‘Afghan Girl’, at Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984.

Sharbat Gula, ‘Afghan Girl’, at Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984. Photo: Steve McCurry