Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
Stunning images, complex narratives, a fascinating conversation: pictures of Asia by two of the great masters of documentary photography. Picturing Asia: Double Take pairs and contrasts the work of New Zealander Brian Brake (1927-1988), and American Steve McCurry (born 1950). Brake, best known for his Monsoon photo essay in Life magazine in 1961, inspired McCurry with that series, who later became famous with his own photograph of Sharbat Gula, known as Afghan Girl and published 24 years later on the cover of National Geographic. Not just pictures of Asia, these photographs are also invitations to ‘picture this’ – to find the stories within.
