Steve Mc Curry

copyright Steve Mc Curry: Sharbat Gula

After working two years for Today's Post, Steve Mc Curry(1950, Philadelphia), who studied film and literature, decided to tour South East Asia. While living in India, the photographer's portfolio grew, which soon led to orders by Newsweek and The New York Times.

The New York citizen soon won the Robert Capa Gold medal.

During the nineteen eighties National Geographic assigned the photographer to go to Pakistan for two months, where he stayed four months longer. While working for National Geographic, Mc Curry switched to colour photography. The Magnum member(1986) is principally known for his award winning World Press Photo of Afghan refugee girl Sharbat Gula(1984, on cover in 1985), whom he photographed again seventeen years later.

Eight employees assist the artist in his two Philadelphia and three New York studios, his business is managed by his sister. In 2013 his creations were shown in Siena, in 2014 he was asked for the Lavazza calender.

Joseph Koudelka, Albert Watson, Don MC Cullin, James Nachtwey and Elliott Erwitt, the latter being the main reason for wanting to work for Magnum, are Mc Curry’s main icons. Painters Rembrandt and Caravaggio are other stated inspirations. His dear friends Henri Cartier-Bresson and Erwitt taught him to look. The artist also knew and admired Elliott, Eve Arnold, René Burri and Bruno Barbey.

His travels taught him what he needed to know about people, his photographs reflect the things that move him. Each and every one of us desires the same thing: to be respected.