Since then, McCurry has gone on to create stunning images on all seven continents and countless countries. Emerging in traditional dress, with full beard and weather-worn features after weeks embedded with the Mujahedeen, McCurry brought the world the first images of the conflict in Afghanistan, putting a human face to the issue on every masthead.

There, he met a group of refugees from Afghanistan, who smuggled him across the border into their country, just as the Russian Invasion was closing the country to all western journalists. It was after several months of travel that he found himself crossing the border into Pakistan. Traveling with little more than a bag of clothes and another of film, he made his way across the subcontinent, exploring the country with his camera. After several years of freelance work, McCurry made his first of what would become many trips to India. Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 30 years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name.īorn in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania McCurry studied film at Pennsylvania State University, before going on to work for a local newspaper. You’ll wonder about it for the rest of your life.Condition: Good. If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, – Victor Hugo Beirut, Lebanon Manila, Philippines Lhasa, Tibet Omo Valley, Ethiopia Angkor Wat, Cambodia Beirut, Lebanon Myanmar/Burmaīe like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Genius will not… unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Talent will not… nothing is more common than unsuccessful people will talent. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. – Harriet Beecher Stowe Near Samye, Tibet When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

– Nelson Mandela New York City, New York, USA Benin Port-au-Prince, Haiti Mali Baluchistan, Pakistan USA / Mexico Border The world breaks everyone, and afterward,Ĭope with setbacks, and persevere in the face of

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