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| name = Steve McCurry
| image = Steve McCurry (5824371040).jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|04|23}}
| birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
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McCurry's career was launched when, disguised in Afghani garb, he crossed the [[Pakistan]] border into rebel-controlled areas of [[Afghanistan]] just before [[Soviet–Afghan War|the Soviet invasion]].<ref name=":3">{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/23/world/steve-mccurry-afghan-girl-photo/ |title=The story behind the world's most famous photograph |last=Wallis Simons |first=Jake |date=June 29, 2015 |publisher=CNN |access-date=June 7, 2016 |quote=...{{nbsp}}disguised himself in Afghan clothes and crossed illegally into Afghanistan, just before the Soviet invasion.}}</ref> "As soon as I crossed the border, I came across about 40 houses and a few schools that were just bombed out," he says. He left with rolls of film sewn into his turban and stuffed in his socks and underwear.<ref name=":1" /> These images were subsequently published by ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Paris Match]]''<ref name=":4">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/28/steve-mccurry-photography |title=US photographer Steve McCurry: Go with the flow |last=Iqbal |first=Nosheen |date=June 28, 2010 |website=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited |access-date=June 7, 2016 |quote=To cover the war, he had dressed in salwar kameez and turban, smuggling rolls of film across the Afghan border, sewn into his coat.}}</ref> and won him the [[Robert Capa Gold Medal]] for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad.<ref name="NatGeoBio">{{cite web |title=Photographer Steve McCurry Biography – |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/m/photographer-steve-mccurry/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922170724/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/m/photographer-steve-mccurry/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 22, 2016 |website=National Geographic |language=en |date=25 April 2016}}</ref>
McCurry covered more armed conflicts like the [[Iran–Iraq
McCurry concentrates on the toll war takes on humans. He intends to show what war does to not only the landscape, but to the people who inhabit that land. "Most of my images are grounded in people. I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape, that you could call the human condition."<ref name=":4" /> What McCurry wants his viewers to take away from his photographs is the "human connection between all of us." He believes there is always some common thing between all humans despite the differences in religion, language, ethnicity, etc.<ref name=":1" /> McCurry also states, "I have found that I get completely consumed by the importance of the story I am telling, the feeling that the world has got to know. It's never about the adrenaline. It's about the story."<ref name=":2" /> However, sometimes McCurry has witnessed some "horrific" and "distressing" sights. In times like these, he uses his camera as a "shield" because it's easier to witness these events through a viewfinder.<ref name=":2" />
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