![]() ![]() And he sneaked into Afghanistan, disguised as an Afghan peasant. Before he was 30 he had traveled through Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and alone down the Nile, into Uganda and Kenya he lived a vagabond life in India for two years in the late 1970s, and visited Nepal and Thailand. As a 22-year-old looking for subjects, he hitchhiked from his home in the US and traveled through Mexico and Central America, as far as Panama. He was a traveler before he was a photographer, and he has always been a risk-taker. ![]() Being Steve, he tracked the woman down 17 years later and photographed her again. One of these pictures, of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan teenager he shot in a refugee camp in 1984, has been called one of the most widely recognized photographic images ever. He is always watchful, absolutely hawk-eyed for the way things are, for finding the humanity in every picture. Steve is a great photographer because he is a resourceful traveler and a humble person, and the hardest working creative person I know. Steve McCurry has been traveling and taking photographs for almost 40 years. ![]()
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