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Steve McCurry Masterclass Workshops
Mentioning Steve McCurry and most photographers will immediately refer him to the famous Afghan Girl name Sharbat Gula who grace the National Geographic Magazine cover in 1985. It is an iconic image until this day. Most people especially photographers knows about the story and about how after seventeen years Steve McCurry manage to trace her again. I was very lucky to have the opportunity to attend his class, Steve McCurry Masterclass – Photography Workshop organize by Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in association with Epson Malaysia on 8th January 2010. I don’t want to write a long story here, just wanted to share something that I learn from his workshops. One…
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Built Rapport With The People You Photograph
I’ve the opportunity attending Public Talk by Steve McCurry at Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with his latest exhibition title A Common Faith: Steve McCurry’s Travels through the Muslim World on 7th January 2010. Steve McCurry is very famous with his Afghan girl portrait but I’m not going to talk about that picture. What I’m interested is how Steve approach his subject or in this case, people he photograph. Steve tells us that we must respect the person we photograph, they are not a “Subject”, they are just a person, normal human being like the rest of us and deserved to be treat as one. Don’t just…
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Serious
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Innocence
“A perfect photo that is empty of any feeling will never equal a blurred photo full of emotion.” ( Olivier Föllmi ) Tweet news and informationbusiness,health,entertainment,technology automotive,business,crime,health,life,politics,science,technology,travel
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The Photographer
“There is only you and your camera, the limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are”. ( Ernst Hass ) Someday soon someone will ask: “Why did you become a photographer?” And you will answer : “I became a photographer because it involve me in the entire world around me. “I became a photographer because it provided me with food for my soul and bread for my table. “I became a photographer because it enable me to observe the human condition and to record the parade of human events…” ( New York Institute of Photography ) Get The Secret HERE Tweet news and…