PICTURE PERFECT Nat Geo photographer Steve McCurry, the man behind the world’s most famous photograph, chooses some of his favourite shots from his career. He tells us why each shot is so special
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he award-winning photographer Steve McCurry has proved time and time again that there’s nothing he won’t do to get the perfect shot, including sewing rolls of film into his clothes when escaping from an Afghan war zone. He has covered numerous conflicts and his work has regularly been seen
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in National Geographic magazine. It was his June 1985 cover shot for National Geographic that caught the world’s imagination. His portrait the ‘Afghan Girl’, was named the most recognised photograph in the history of the magazine. From the thousands of photographs that McCurry has taken throughout his career we asked him to tell us more about some of his favourite images.
