The exhibition of Steven Mc Curry can’t leave indifferent, it seems to have hands to scroll us from our daily routine and lips to communicate all the details of the various scenarios in the globe.
Is it for real? This is the first spontaneous question.
Yes, it’s a documentary realized through pictures, so real people, real places. The author is recording “the part of the world” we normally forgot, describing how bizarre could be the living conditions of human beings. The voices, or better the faces, of his portraits represent colours of countries which easily enchant us; spicy tastes come straight to my mind but, besides fascinating traditional dresses, are also evident wrinkles, tears, signs of fatigue, pain and fear.
I can’t forget those eyes, looking for a direct contact, charged with a mix of deep serenity and seriousness. Then, somewhere outside it is happening for real!
Their awareness appears in some ways melancholic, in others proud.
The photograph from Philadelphia is universally recognized for his evocative documentary tradition; his camera is able to capture the essence of both human struggle and joy.
The beauty of people, the beauty of places.
How food is part of the life of these people?
It is not an intent to define the link between art and food. Food is a form of art only for the fact to be a masterpiece of nature. It’s astonishing how food could be an essential part of people’s daily life as nourishment, pleasure, conviviality, culture but at the same time can be just a detail in a picture as much as guns, bombs, dust, ragged clothes, precarious buildings, etc. There is food but also absence of food in the scene, those bones stuck out tell miserable stories…
We don’t have always to think about food, but food, like photography, invites us reflecting: we can only image the taste of the daily bread in Their mouth!
