Steve McCurry’s ICONS

Photographer Steve McCurry to open ICONS in Melbourne, a retrospective with his most iconic images

With more than 100 large-format photographs, ICONS is one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of Steve McCurry’s career.

McCurry’s most iconic images will be showcased including the legendary portrait of the Afghan Girl, Sharbat Gula.

Presented by pioneering production company, Sold Out, in partnership with Milan-based agency for internationally-renowned photographers, Sudest57; and leading global live-entertainment discovery platform, Fever, ICONS will feature more than 100 large-format photographs of McCurry’s most iconic images, including the legendary 1984 portrait of the Afghan Girl, Sharbat Gula which was famously featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine. The showing also includes other very well-known pictures he captured throughout his forty years of profession, as well as his most recent work.

Set against the backdrop of one of Melbourne’s most breathtaking heritage waterfront buildings, the ICONS exhibition will immerse guests in the photographic universe of Steve McCurry, through a journey that took him to some of the most beautiful and harrowing parts of the world. From Afghanistan to India, Southeast Asia to Africa, Cuba to the United States and Brazil to Italy, ICONS is a truly fascinating collection of images in which the human element is always the protagonist.