This two-year walkabout somehow led him to the border of Pakistan where he met a small group of Afghan refugees displaced by the Afghan-Soviet War. McCurry’s plan was to enter Afghanistan, then closed off to foreign journalists, to photograph the brutality of the Afghan-Soviet War.
In a digital press conference to introduce his photo exhibition at Leica’s Ernst Leitz Museum, award-winning photographer Steve McCurry talks about the future of photography and his iconic photo of the green-eyed Afghan Girl
A young and restless photojournalist from Philadelphia, Steve McCurry left his newspaper job in the late 70s and bought a one-way ticket to India, his first trip out of the US, to explore South Asia.
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