1. Steve McCurry

2. ✦ Born in Pennsylvania on 2/24/50
✦ Graduated in cinematography at Penn State
✦ Work for student newspaper sparked interest
✦ Career launched sneaking into Afghanistan
✦ Member of Magnum since 1986

3. ✦ 2005 Honorary Fellowship, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
2005 Photographic Society of America, Photojournalism Division-International
Understanding Through Photography Award
2003 International Photography Awards, Lucie Award for Photojournalism
2003 Distinguished Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University
2003 Co-recipient of the New York Film Festival Gold for “Afghan Girl: Found” documentary
2002 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, College of Creative Studies, University of California
2002 Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ, USA
2002 Photographer of the Year, PMDA Professional Photographer Award
2002 Photographer of the Year ("American Photo")
2002 United Nations International Photographic Council: Special Recognition Award
2002 French Art Directors Association, Award of Excellence
2001 Photography Annual, Communication Arts
Award of Excellence
2000 Picture of the Year Competition
Book of the Year; Magazine Feature Picture Award of Excellence
1999 Pennsylvania State University, Lifetime Fellow Award
1998 "Life" Eisenstaedt Awards - Our World Photo Winner and Our World Essay Finalist
1998 Picture of the Year Competition, Award of Excellence
1998 SAJA, Southern Asian Journalistic Award, Outstanding Special Project
1997 Picture of the Year Competition
Magazine Feature Picture Award of Excellence
1996 Picture of the Year Competition
Magazine Feature Picture Story Award ("Beggar")
Magazine Feature Picture Story Award ("Burma: The Richest of the Poor Countries")
1994 Pennsylvania State University, Arts and Architecture Distinguished Alumni Award
1993 National Press Photographers Association, Award of Excellence ("Rubble of War")
1992 Oliver Rebbot Memorial Award, Overseas Press Club
Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad on Gulf War Coverage
1992 Picture of the Year Competition
Magazine Feature Picture Award of Excellence ("Fiery Aliens'") First Place, Magazine
Science Award ("Camels under a Blackened Sky") First Place, Gulf War News Story
("Kuwait: After the Storm")
1992 World Press Photo Competition
First Place, Nature and Environment ("Oil-Stricken Bird, Kuwait")
First Place, General News Stories ("Kuwait After the Storm")
Children's Award ("Camels under a Blackened Sky")
1990 Award of Excellence, White House News Photographers Association ("Spanish Gypsy")
1987 Medal of Honor, Philippines, for coverage of the 1986 Philippine Revolution
1986 Oliver Rebbot Memorial Award, Overseas Press Club
Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad for work done in the Philippines
1985 World Press Competition, Four First Prize First place, Nature and Nature Series;
First place, Daily Life and Daily Life Series
1985 Oliver Rebbot Award Citation ("Monsoons" and "The New Faces of Baghdad")
1984 National Press Photographers Association: Magazine Photographer of the Year
1980 Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for coverage of the war in Afghanistan for Time
✦ (magnum photos)

4. The other thing is the joy and pleasure of
looking through other people’s work. Paul
Strand, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White …
you see how they made their pictures, how
they frame things, their kind of visual
vocabulary. I can't imagine a musician not
listening to other people’s music or an actor
not learning from other actors, and building on
the past. Not that you want your work to be
derivative, but it’s fun to leaf through a really
good book of photography.

5. “If you wait people will forget
your camera and the soul will
drift up into view.”

7. After a while I developed a
certain method of working where
I either got my shot quickly
before I am noticed; or I hung
around my subjects so long until
they get bored or accustomed to
me and continue about their
usual routines.

10. For me, being a photographer has
been an enormous amount of fun. I
have had the wonderful opportunity
of visiting the amazing places I have
shot in. I can’t imagine a better way
to spend your time and life than
exploring this amazing planet.

13. The first thing to me is the
human aspect of the picture, to
try to convey some sort of
empathy with the subject and,
secondly, the composition and
the form of how that picture's
put together. I like to have the
photo communicate what it's like
to be that person.
-Steve McCurry

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