The iconic image, made famous as the cover of National Geographic's June 1985 issue, captures a young Afghan refugee living in Peshawar, Pakistan during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Known ...

There's a heartbreaking truth behind an infamous photo taken over 40 years ago, and it will change the way you look at it ...

Steve McCurry. McCurry is known for his intimate portraits, which he says start simply with a conversation. A chance encounter with a woman on the streets of Havana turned into her reminiscing ...

Steve McCurry has achieved legendary status with his documentary photography, and is perhaps best known for his portrait of the “Afghan Girl” with the piercing green eyes published in 1985 ...

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 ...

Steve McCurry: I’m a Visual Storyteller Not a Photojournalist 5 minute read Photographer Steve McCurry on the set of a TV Show on Nov. 2, 2013 in Milan, Italy.

Steve McCurry, the artful and adventurous photographer behind the famous "Afghan Girl" image, shares some of his hard-won knowledge of that country with Gaby Wood. Steve McCurry, ...

Steve McCurry, a photographer who has reached iconic status following the publication of his Afghan Girl portrait in National Geographic in 1985, has found himself at the center of a controversy ...

McCurry witnessed it all. A national election widely decried as fraudulent. Filipinos spilling out on to the streets. Soldiers laying down their arms in the face of pervasive, nonviolent protests.

HIS PHOTOGRAPHS ARE not, by and large, happy ones. There is the shot Steve McCurry took of a child warrior in Afghanistan, ammunition belts wrapped around his body, his forehead creased like an ...

Recently interviewed on National Public Radio's "My Big Break" series, Steve McCurry stated that the moment he captured this image changed his life. As McCurry explains in the interview, "Occasionally ...

Steve McCurry has achieved legendary status with his documentary photography, and is perhaps best known for his portrait of the “Afghan Girl” with the piercing green eyes published in 1985 ...