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Legendary photographer Steve McCurry has visited Afghanistan more than 30 times. McCurry told Insider he is "heartbroken" about what has happened to the country in recent weeks. He hopes to return ...
There are a hundred stories of war and life captured in “Unguarded, Untold, Iconic: Afghanistan through the Lens of Steve McCurry,” an exhibit of 40 photographs at the James A. Michener Art ...
Here, men attend a mine awareness programme in Kandahar, 1992. Image caption, The exhibition Steve McCurry: Afghanistan is at the Beetles and Huxley Gallery, London, until 7 June 2014.
Photographer Steve McCurry has spent more than three decades behind the camera, capturing powerful images of human triumph and tragedy. His most famous image, titled "The Afghan Girl," is that of ...
It's hard to think of Afghanistan and not picture the ongoing conflict that has been raging there since 2001. Steve McCurry is a photojournalist who has been taking snapshots of Afghanistan and ...
She became a symbol of war, displacement and defiance after American photographer Steve McCurry captured her image in a refugee camp in Peshawar, on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. More than 30 ...
When we think of Afghanistan – if, indeed, we do – it is through a lens fractured by war. That’s not surprising. For much of the last two millennia the land that we now call Afghanistan has ...
Startled, the girls pause their routine. McCurry, curious and smiling, asks, “Am I on television?” One of them laughs and ...
Photographer Steve McCurry talks about his iconic National Geographic "Afghan Girl" photo, in the first edition of Ann Curry's "Depth of Field." The image has donned the cover of National ...
Steve McCurry at Howrah Station ... Just as arresting as McCurry's iconic Afghan girl, this man holds a similarly captivating stare. Aadam Aziz's character in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's ...
But when Steve McCurry greets me at the door of his studio ... reminds us that perhaps his most striking asset is a relationship with Afghanistan that dates back to the Seventies.
A lot of tourists went to Afghanistan once and if it wasn’t for the war I think it’d be really high on everyone’s list of places to go. It’s a real pity. Steve McCurry spoke to John O ...