Haunting “Faces of Asia” Exhibit Opens at Freedom Center

Posted on September 26th, 2008 by Paul Bernish

A collection of 100 haunting photographs of Asian men, women and children will be on display at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center beginning October 4.

© Steve McCurry, courtesy George Eastman House

The exhibition, entitled Faces of Asia: Steve McCurry Photographs, has garnered numerous awards for photographer Steve McCurry, and it’s no wonder. The images, taken in Afghanistan, Tibet, Cambodia and India, includes the mesmerizing photo taken in 1985 of an Afghan girl with piercing green eyes. McCurry returned to Afghanistan in 2002 to find the girl and re-take her image. These new photos were published in the April 2002 edition of National Geographic.

“Most of my photos are grounded in people,” McCurry has said. “I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person—a person caught in a broader landscape that I guess you’d call the human condition.”

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