Steve McCurry: Uncertain future for Afghanistan. Governments have been wrong across the board

by Redazione , published on 29/08/2021
Categories: Photography / Disclaimer
The great photographer Steve McCurry, who has known Afghanistan on several occasions, talks about the current situation in the country, expressing his full concern.

In anexclusive interview with SkyTG24, the great photographer Steve McCurry (Darby, Pennsylvania, 1950) spoke about thecurrent Afghan situation.McCurry has come to knowAfghanistan very well in the course of his travels aimed at learning about and portraying with his camera the world’s various cultures and its peoples, and one of his most iconic photos is precisely the Portrait of the Afghan Girl with her large, magnetic green eyes, taken in 1984. Recalling the latter, Sharbat Gula, who returned to Afghanistan in 2016, said that she, like so many other Afghan women, will be trying to figure out what will happen next. "I am sure that in Afghanistan and especially in Kabul everyone will be afraid for the future,“ the renowned photographer stressed, ”they know what the Taliban are like, they know what they are capable of."

McCurry expresses all his concern for the country; that country to which he returned in 2016 and “the situation,” he comments, “was already critical at that time. The amazing thing,” the photographer continues, "is that many brilliant minds employed by our governments have been wrong across the board.“ ”It is impossible that after 2 trillion dollars, 20 years, and so many victims, a better result was not achieved. It is dramatic."

The future for Afghanistan and its people looks very uncertain: “People, whether in Kabul or Afghanistan, are desperate, afraid, worried about the future knowing what the situation had already been like with the Taliban,” he said.

Image: Steve McCurry, Afghan Girl (Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984) ©Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry: Uncertain future for Afghanistan. Governments have been wrong across the board
Steve McCurry: Uncertain future for Afghanistan. Governments have been wrong across the board


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