Steve McCurry travels through the vivid colour and cultures of the South East

If you missed Steve McCurry’s exceptional exhibition at Milan’s Palazzo della Ragione, there's another chance to catch his work at another Italian city.

Nearly 200 photos taken during McCurry’s travels to Afghanistan, India, Tibet and Burma are on display at the stunning Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria in Perugia, Italy, until 5 September 2010.

Steve McCurry: Sud Est 1980-2009 is split into six thematic sections: Portraits, Silence, War, Joy, Childhood and Beauty, which together provide, as McCurry puts it, an ‘ample mosaic of complex human experience’.

The War gallery features particularly moving photographs, including those captured by McCurry at the window of his office in New York the day the Twin Towers were destroyed. There is a narrative to the ordering of the different sections: the end of War is followed by scenes of Joy for example, and it is in this section that the simple pleasures of daily life resurface from the anguish of conflict. Haunting images of loneliness and the exploitation of child soldiers resonate in the Childhood section, before Beauty brings the exhibition to a close with images that include the iconic green-eyed Afghan Girl.

McCurry’s photographs immerse the viewer in the journeys he has taken and brilliantly create a sense of acquaintance with the people he has encountered.

The limited edition, specially-bound large-format publication: Steve McCurry:The Iconic Photographs, on sale as part of the exhibition, comes with an exclusive print, signed and numbered by the photographer.