In 1978, at the age of 28, he discovered India. His head was filled with images. Those of a book - The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) by Paul Théroux, but also those of photographers who had gone before him, such as Cartier-Bresson and Marc Riboud.
The journey to India has an initiatory dimension. The mystical splendor of Ladakh's monasteries transformed him. Steve McCurry's Orient, however, …
The journey to India has an initiatory dimension. The mystical splendor of Ladakh's monasteries transformed him. Steve McCurry's Orient, however, is no longer the enchanted horizon of the 1950s. Travel is faster and easier. War ravaged Afghanistan - he returned thirty times! - and globalization is erasing differences. The Orientalist dream is …
