{"id":17177,"date":"2025-08-01T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nylon.com.sg\/?p=17177"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:35:08","slug":"interview-with-world-renowned-photographer-steve-mccurry-on-being-a-visual-storyteller-and-documenting-the-human-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/nylon.com.sg\/interview-with-world-renowned-photographer-steve-mccurry-on-being-a-visual-storyteller-and-documenting-the-human-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with world-renowned photographer, Steve McCurry on being a visual storyteller and documenting the human experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adele Chan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stepping into the vibrant and often poignant world of American photographer, Steve McCurry is far more than just pictures and exhibitions of them; he’s a storyteller and documenter of places, people and situations. And with much of his work, it’s true what they say \u2014 a picture is worth a thousand words. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His most iconic photo is the portrait of the “Afghan Girl”<\/a> that graced the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. He took it in December 1984 near Peshawar, Pakistan, during the Soviet-Afghan War, and this image has been famously named, “the most recognised photograph” in the history of the magazine that published it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had the privilege of meeting with him in Wetzlar during Leica’s 100th Anniversary<\/a> event celebrations in June, and we spoke about his extraordinary craft of photography, the gear he uses, and what’s he up to now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve McCurry with Sunil Kaul and Laxmi Kaul. Photo taken by Dr Chua Yang<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Adele: How did you get into photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve:<\/strong> I was always interested in art. Then when I was 12, I saw a Life magazine with a story about the monsoon \u2014 the Indian monsoon \u2014 and I was intrigued. I thought that that’s incredible. I’d love to see that myself, and I’d like to go to India. It seemed like a really fun place. And then when I was 19, I went to live in Europe for a year and I was kind of just travelling. After that year in Europe, I thought to myself, whatever I do in my life, I want to travel. So I went back to school, and I’m was kind of searching for something to do. And then I thought, well, filmmaking would be a good way to achieve this. So I started studying filmmaking. And in the process of studying filmmaking, I rediscovered photography and decided that it was a way that I could travel, create some art, and hopefully make a living. Following which, I worked in a newspaper and then saved my money, went to India, and spent two years there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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