Steve McCurry
Member of Magnum Photos since 1986, Steve McCurry was born in 1950 in Philadelphia and lives in New York. He studied at the Pennsylvania State University College of Art and Architecture before working as a photographer for a newspaper. After two years, he made the rst of many trips to India. With little more than a bag of clothes and lm, he crossed the subcontinent and explored the country with his camera. > Read more
His career was launched when he crossed the Pakistani border, disguised as a Pashtun, just before the Soviet invasion. The photos he brings back are published all over the world and earn him the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the rst of a long series of prestigious awards, including four World Press Photo Awards in the same year and the Olivier Rebbot Memorial Award twice.
McCurry has been one of the most iconic gures in contemporary photography for more than four decades. His work covers con icts, disappearing cultures, ancient traditions and contemporary culture, while retaining the human element that makes his photographs powerful images. He is also known for his images of South and South-East Asia. His young green-eyed Afghan refugee girl (Pakistan, 1984), whom he found twenty years later, is one of the world’s most famous icons of photo- graphy.
More recently, the Royal Photographic Society in London awarded McCurry The Centennial Medal for lifetime achievement and in 2019 McCurry was inducted into the International Hall of Fame of Photography.
In 2020, he published his latest book, In Search of Elswhere: Unseen Images, published by Laurence King Publishing.
Exhibitions at Polka Galerie
Exhibitions at Polka Galerie
Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry
