Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry’s career reached a
turning point in the 1980s when, disguised in native garb, he crossed the
Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Soviet
invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes. These
images won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from
Abroad, an award dedicated to photographers exhibiting exceptional courage and
enterprise.
Since then McCurry has published books and covered areas of international and
civil conflict, including Burma, Yemen, Kashmir, and Cambodia. He has won many
of photojournalism’s highest awards.
“Most of my photos are grounded in people,” says McCurry. “I look for the
unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a
person’s face.”
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