Afghanistan through the lens of Steve Mc Curry

• Afghanistan through the lens of Steve Mc Curry

Subsequent images are part of a new exhibition in the gallery of The Beatles + Huxley in London. Afghanistan through the eyes of Steve Mc Curry displays a permanent relationship with the acclaimed photographer still troubled but beautiful country. The exhibition will be held from 12 May to 7 June. Author Steve Mc Curry talks about his memories of Afghanistan and that travelers miss.

Children work on a poppy field in Badakhshan, which is the largest producer of the Afghanistan Opium (1992).

Woman in burqa Canary (2002).

Nomads pile pray near Kandahar (1992).

The caravan of camels, Southern Afghanistan (1981). Most roads throughout Afghanistan presented by dirt roads. Such roads are not suitable for cars or trucks, but there verblyudnye trains are still running, they now hold its way through rocky terrain, as in ancient times. Mc Curry followed these drovers and their camels when they headed south to the border with Pakistan.

Father and son in Helmand province (1980).

Landscape with a horse in the Band-e-Amir (2002). Band-i-Amir is the name given to the chain of lakes, is located about 80 kilometers west of Bamiyan in the Hindu Kush mountains. Mc Curry constantly turned to this remote area of the country. In this photo he took a picture of the colt, hurrying to his mother. In the background we see two vertical cliffs. Photographed a few months after the attack on the World Trade Center towers were the two natural unpleasant associations.

scourging himself Shiite Muslims during Ashura in Kabul (2002).

An Afghan refugee with a damaged eye, Balochistan, Pakistan (1981).

The mosque Hazrat Ali in Mazar-e Sharif (1992).

A boy stands with a gun (1979).

The mujahideen are standing on top of a mountain in the Hindu Kush (1984).

The man in the mosque of Bamiyan (2006).

The Blue Mosque, Mazar-e Sharif (1991). Revered by Muslims as the tomb of the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the mosque of the 15th century, near the border of Uzbekistan, received its name in honor of cobalt blue and turquoise shades of its minarets and domes.