150 Portraits Of People Around The World In A 30-Year Career Retrospective By Steve McCurry (33 Pics)

Legendary photojournalist Steve McCurry  The photos, taken among people of various cultures around the world, emphasize his unparalleled...

Legendary photojournalist Steve McCurry

 The photos, taken among people of various cultures around the world, emphasize his unparalleled ability to capture the human soul through a lens.

“For me a portrait is about connection, somehow you connect with a person, visually or emotionally,” McCurry told designboom. “I’ve often believed that a person’s life stories are kind of written on their face. It’s magical, it’s mystical the way you can connect to a person, it’s hard to describe. You know it when you see it.”

An elderly man of the Rabari tribe, Rajasthan, India, 2010

Portrait of a boy from the Suri tribe, Omo valley, Ethiopia, 2013

Shadow play, Preah Khan, Angkor, Cambodia, 1999

Children from the Kara tribe look through windows, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2013

Workers on a steam locomotive, India, 1983

Mumbai, India

India

Sanaa, Yemen

Rajasthan, India

Paraguay

Yangon, Myanmar/Burma

A boy sits on a chair, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2013

A girl in a doorway, Afghanistan, 2003

Robert De Niro in his screening room in Tribeca, New York, USA, 2010

Steve McCurry speaking with men of the Suma tribe, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2012

Camel and oil fields, Kuwait, 1991

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

Portrait from Tagong, Tibet, 1999 (exhibition view at Villa Reale di Monza)

Portrait of a refugee taken in Balochistan, Pakistan, 1981 (exhibition view at Villa Reale di Monza)

Exhibition view of ‘girl with green shawl’, peshawar, pakistan, 2002

Ladders infill the hallways, framing a portrait of a welder in a ship-breaking yard taken in mumbai, india, 1994

Installation view of ‘shoeshine boy’, lhasa, tibet, 1999 within the exhibition space of villa reale di monza

Installation view of a portrait of a young boy pointing a gun at his head from alto churumazu, yanesha, peru, 2004

Installation view of a baby wrapped in a blanket from xigaze, tibet taken by mccurry in 1989

Exhibition view of a coal miner smoking a cigarette in puli khumri, afghanistan, 2002

Exhibition view of portrait taken in shwedagon pagoda, yangon, myanmar 

Installation view of mccurry's photo of the world trade center towers on september 11th, 2001 

Installation view at villa reale di monza 

Installation view at villa reale di monza 

Exhibition view of a portrait taken from the surma tribe, omo valley, ethiopia 

Images arranged on the gallery floor provide visitors a chance for close investigation 

Installation view at villa reale di monza