Steve McCurry

McCurry was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn State University. He originally planned to study cinematography and filmmaking, but instead gained a degree in theater arts and graduated in 1974. He became interested in photography when he started taking pictures for the Penn State newspaper The Daily Collegian.{{cite web |title=Magnum Photos Home |url=https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_2_VForm |website=pro.magnumphotos.com}}

After a year working in India, McCurry traveled to northern Pakistan where he met two Afghans who told him about the war across the border in Afghanistan.{{cite magazine |author= |date=2003 |title=Q&A With Steve McCurry |url=http://www.pdngallery.com/global/en/professional/features/legendsV6Q1/qa.pdf |magazine=PDN |access-date=June 7, 2016}} Disguised in Afghani garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled areas of Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/23/world/steve-mccurry-afghan-girl-photo/ |title=The story behind the world's most famous photograph |last=Wallis Simons |first=Jake |date=June 29, 2015 |publisher=CNN |access-date=June 7, 2016 |quote=...{{nbsp}}disguised himself in Afghan clothes and crossed illegally into Afghanistan, just before the Soviet invasion.}} "As soon as I crossed the border, I came across about 40 houses and a few schools that were just bombed out," he says. He left with rolls of film sewn into his turban and stuffed in his socks and underwear. These images were subsequently published by The New York Times, Time and Paris Match{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/28/steve-mccurry-photography |title=US photographer Steve McCurry: Go with the flow |last=Iqbal |first=Nosheen |date=June 28, 2010 |website=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited |access-date=June 7, 2016 |quote=To cover the war, he had dressed in salwar kameez and turban, smuggling rolls of film across the Afghan border, sewn into his coat.}} and won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad.{{cite web |title=Photographer Steve McCurry Biography – |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/m/photographer-steve-mccurry/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922170724/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/m/photographer-steve-mccurry/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 22, 2016 |website=National Geographic |language=en |date=25 April 2016}}

McCurry covered more armed conflicts like the Iran–Iraq War, Lebanon Civil War, the Cambodian Civil War, the Islamic insurgency in the Philippines, the Gulf War and the Afghan Civil War. McCurry came close to losing his life twice. He was almost drowned in India, and he survived an airplane crash in Yugoslavia. McCurry has had his work featured in magazines worldwide and he is a frequent contributor to National Geographic.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, McCurry received a call saying the World Trade Center was on fire. He went up to the roof of his building and started taking photographs, unaware that a plane had hit the towers. He photographed the two towers and their eventual collapse.{{Cite web |last=Boxer |first=Sarah |title=Sarah Boxer on September 11 in image and print |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/200201/september-11-in-image-and-print-2062 |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=www.artforum.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.americanphotomag.com/steve-mccurry-ground-zero-photographs#page-2|title=Steve McCurry: The Ground Zero Photographs|work=American Photo|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en}} After the fall of the towers, he ran to Ground Zero with his assistant. He left later that night and went back early on September 12. He had no press credentials and evaded security to access the site. He was eventually caught and escorted off Ground Zero; he did not go back again.

McCurry switched from shooting color slide film to digital capture in 2005 for the convenience of editing in the field and transmitting images to photo editors. He said that he had no nostalgia about working in film in an interview with The Guardian. "Perhaps old habits are hard to break, but my experience is that the majority of my colleagues, regardless of age, have switched over{{nbsp}}... The quality has never been better. You can work in extremely low light situations, for example."

{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/28/steve-mccurry-photography |title=US photographer Steve McCurry: Go with the flow |last=Iqbal |first=Nosheen |date=June 28, 2010 |website=The Guardian |access-date=June 7, 2016 |quote=He is practical about the benefits and has little patience for the nostalgic romance surrounding photographers who work only with film.}}

McCurry shoots in both film and digital, but has said that he prefers shooting with transparency film. Kodak gifted him the last roll of Kodachrome film to ever be produced by the company. McCurry shot the roll, which was processed in July 2010 by Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas. Most of these photos were published on the Internet by Vanity Fair. McCurry states, "I shot it for 30 years and I have several hundred thousand pictures on Kodachrome in my archive. I'm trying to shoot 36 pictures that act as some kind of wrap up – to mark the passing of Kodachrome. It was a wonderful film."{{Cite web|url=http://www.laurarathe.com/artists/steve-mccurry/featured-works?view=thumbnails|title=Steve McCurry – Artists – LAURA RATHE FINE ART|website=www.laurarathe.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-22}}

In 2015, he was hired by Microsoft to take photographs in areas of New Zealand, which were used as wallpapers in Windows 10.{{Cite web|url=https://maryleejohnson.com/Windows-10-Wallpaper-Photography-Steve-McCurry|title=Windows 10 Wallpaper Photography – Steve McCurry|last=Johnson|first=Marylee|website=maryleejohnson.com|access-date=2020-02-15}}

In 2019, his book Steve McCurry. Animals was published by Taschen and is a compilation of his favorite photographs of animals.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/steve-mccurry-animal-photography/index.html|title=Steve McCurry's photos show complex relationship between humans and animals|last=Prisco|first=Jacopo|date=2019-11-07|website=CNN Style|language=en|access-date=2019-11-11}}

McCurry took Afghan Girl in December 1984.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080216004216/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text A Life Revealed- Afghan Girl], National Geographic It portrays an approximately 12-year-old Pashtun orphan in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/23/world/steve-mccurry-afghan-girl-photo/ |title=The story behind the world's most famous photograph |last=Wallis Simons |first=Jake |date=June 29, 2015 |website=CNN |publisher=able News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. |access-date=June 7, 2016 |quote=...{{nbsp}}a Pashtun orphan in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistan border, was taken in December 1984 and published the following year.}} McCurry found the girl when he heard "unexpected laughter" coming from children inside a one-room school tent for girls. "I noticed this one little girl with these incredible eyes, and I instantly knew that this was really the only picture I wanted to take," he says. This was the first time the girl had ever been photographed.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/07/26/425659961/how-one-photographer-captured-a-piercing-gaze-that-shook-the-world|title=How One Photographer Captured A Piercing Gaze That Shook The World|publisher=NPR|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en}} The image was named as "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine, and was used as the cover photograph on the June 1985 issue. The photo has also been widely used on Amnesty International brochures, posters, and calendars. The identity of the "Afghan Girl" remained unknown for over 17 years until McCurry and a National Geographic team located the woman, Sharbat Gula, in 2002. McCurry said, "Her skin is weathered; there are wrinkles now, but she is as striking as she was all those years ago."{{Cite news|url=http://barbizon.besharatgallery.com/en/artistes/steve-mccurry-2/|title=Steve McCurry – Besharat Gallery|publisher=Besharat Gallery|access-date=2018-03-28|language=en-US}}

In 2019, vlogger and professional photographer Tony Northrup released a research documentary accusing McCurry of obtaining the photograph under false pretenses, and endangering Gula's wellbeing in doing so.{{Cite news|url=https://thewire.in/media/afghan-girl-steve-mccurry-national-geographic|title=You'll never see the iconic photo of the 'Afghan Girl' the same way again|publisher=The Wire(India)|access-date=2020-02-10|language=en-GB}} McCurry's publicity team responded by accusing Northrup of slander, and the clip was removed. Shortly thereafter, however, it was re-uploaded with a number of corrections, with an accompanying document that detailed a number of sources Northrup had obtained.{{Cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/11sVx6TBvMAcJEV0F48exuuMo-32PeXbeozMlicMc0dM/ |title=Afghan Girl Sources|publisher=Tony Northrup, Google Docs|access-date=2020-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131152907/https://docs.google.com/document/d/11sVx6TBvMAcJEV0F48exuuMo-32PeXbeozMlicMc0dM/edit|archive-date=2020-01-31|language=en-US}} Sharbat Gula herself had also previously provided some commentary on the photograph, published by BBC News in 2017.{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfY2zfv7_V0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/cfY2zfv7_V0 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Afghan 'green-eyed girl' on her future – BBC News|publisher=BBC News|language=en-GB}}{{cbignore}}

In 2016 McCurry was accused of extensively manipulating his images with Photoshop and by other means, removing individuals and other elements.

{{cite web |url=http://www.dw.com/en/ethical-lapse-photoshop-scandal-catches-up-with-iconic-photojournalist-steve-mccurry/a-19296237 |title='Ethical lapse': Photoshop scandal catches up with iconic photojournalist Steve McCurry |last=Sanders IV |first=Lewis |date=May 31, 2016 |website=DW Made for Minds |publisher=Deutsche Welle |access-date=June 6, 2016 |quote=The world-renowned Magnum photographer has renounced the responsibilities of a photojournalist after heavily editing several of his images. But his use of Photoshop has breached photojournalism's ethics, say colleagues.}}{{cite web |url=http://petapixel.com/2016/05/06/botched-steve-mccurry-print-leads-photoshop-scandal/ |title=Botched Steve McCurry Print Leads to Photoshop Scandal |last=Cade |first=DL |date=May 6, 2016 |website=Peta Pixel |publisher=Peta Pixel |access-date=June 7, 2016 |quote=While the original photo was soon removed from Mr. McCurry’s website, people and publications across the Web quickly began digging to see what other McCurry images they could find that had been seriously altered. They did not seem to come up empty handed.}}

In a May 2016 interview with PetaPixel, McCurry did not specifically deny making major changes, indicating that he now defines his work as "visual storytelling" and as "art". However, he subsequently added that others print and ship his images while he is travelling, implying that they were responsible for the significant manipulation. "That is what happened in this case. It goes without saying that what happened with this image was a mistake for which I have to take responsibility," he concluded.{{cite web |url=http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/05/steve-mccurrys-rickshaw/ |title=Steve McCurry's Rickshaw |author= |date=May 31, 2016 |website=PetaPixel |publisher=May 31, 2016 |access-date= |quote=By now, many voices have weighed in about Steve McCurry and the evidence that he has consistently and substantially altered details in his photos. A fresh set of examples appeared just last week.}}

When discussing the issue with a writer for Time{{'}}s Lightbox website, McCurry provided similar comments about being a "visual storyteller", though without suggesting that the manipulation was done by others without his knowledge. In fact, the Time writer made the following statement, "Faced with mounting evidence of his own manipulations, McCurry has been forced to address his position in photography." In neither interview did he discuss when the heavy photo manipulation began, or which images have been manipulated. However, considering the controversy it has created, he said that "going forward, I am committed to only using the program in a minimal way, even for my own work taken on personal trips."{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/4351725/steve-mccurry-not-photojournalist/ |date=30 May 2016 |access-date=1 June 2016 |first=Olivier |last=Laurent |magazine=Time |title=Steve McCurry: I'm a Visual Storyteller Not a Photojournalist}} McCurry also offered the following conclusion to Time Lightbox, "Reflecting on the situation{{nbsp}}... even though I felt that I could do what I wanted to my own pictures in an aesthetic and compositional sense, I now understand how confusing it must be for people who think I'm still a photojournalist."

In 2016 French comic writer Jean-David Morvan and South Korean artist Kim Jung Gi published a biographical graphic novel about Steve McCurry, titled McCurry, NYC, 911.{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kim-jung_gi.htm|title=Kim Jung Gi|website=lambiek.net|access-date=10 October 2022}}{{cite web | url=https://www.tcj.com/translating-terrors-translating-kim-jung-gis-and-jean-david-morvans-graphic-memorial-mccurry-nyc-9-11/ | title=Translating Terrors: Translating Kim Jung Gi's and Jean-David Morvan's Graphic Memorial McCurry, NYC, 9/11 | date=9 September 2021 }}

In 2021, the documentary biopic entitled McCurry: The Pursuit of Color,Davide Abbatescianni: [https://variety.com/2021/film/spotlight/afm-doc-mccurry-1235104287/ AFM Doc ‘McCurry: The Pursuit of Color’ Explores the Art of Iconic Photographer], Variety, 3 November 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2022. directed by Denis Delestrac, produced by Intrepido Films and Polar Star Films and distributed by Dogwoof and Karma Films, was officially selected at the Doc NYC film festival (USA), Festival de Malaga (Spain), and Glasgow Film Festival (Scotland) amongst others. The Spanish cinema release was in June 2022.

• 1987 – Medal of Honor for coverage of the 1986 Philippine Revolution, Philippines, White House News Photographers Association{{cite web |title=Review: Masters of Photography Featuring Steve McCurry |url=https://www.thephoblographer.com/2018/06/27/review-masters-of-photography-featuring-steve-mccurry/ |website=The P oblographer |access-date=27 June 2018}}
• 1992 – 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", World Press Photo Competition{{cite web |title=Steve McCurry |url=http://www.nannimagazine.it/_resources/_documents/Uploaded-Files/File/Biografia%20di%20Steve%20McCurry.pdf |website=Nanni Magazine |access-date=2 December 2011}}
• 1992 – Magazine Feature Picture Award of Excellence: Fiery Aliens First Place, Magazine Science Award: Camels Under A Blackended Sky First Place, Gulf News Sky: Kuwait After the Storm, Picture of the Year Competition{{cite web |title=MOST FAMOUS PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THEIR GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY |url=https://www.clippingdesign.com/blog/most-famous-portrait-photographers-and-their-great-photography/ |website=Clipping Design |access-date=8 January 2014}}
• 1992 – Oliver Pebbot Memorial Award: Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad on Golf War Coverage, Overseas Press Club{{cite web |title=Steve McCurry |url=https://www.phaidon.com/store/photography/steve-mcurry-9780714862590/ |website=Phaidon |access-date=26 February 2019}}
• 1993 – Award of Excellence for Rubble of War, National Press Photographers{{cite web |title=Steve McCurry. Icons – Palermo |url=https://www.italybyevents.com/en/events/sicily/exhibition-steve-mccurry-icons-palermo/ |website=Italy By Events |access-date=15 October 2016}}
• 1994 – Arts and Architecture Distinguished Alumni Award, Pennsylvania State University{{cite web |title=Alumni Awards |url=https://artsandarchitecture.psu.edu/alumni-award-recipients |website=Penn State College of Arts and Architecture |access-date=26 February 2019}}
• 1998 – Award of Excellence, Portraits: Red Boy, Picture of the Year Competition{{cite web |title=STEVE MCCURRY THEATER OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE NICE |url=http://www.le-musee-prive.com/musees/901-steve-mccurry-theatre-de-la-photographie-et-de-l-image-nice.html |website=Le Musse Prive |access-date=26 February 2019}}
• 2002 – Award of Excellence for "Women of Afghanistan"{{cite web |title=Steve McCurry |url=https://www.sudest57.com/homepage/steve-mccurry-2/ |website=Pud Est 57 |access-date=26 February 2019}}
• 2002 – Photographer of the Year{{cite web |title=About Steve McCurry |url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/person/detail/2511/steve-mccurry |website=World Press Photo |access-date=26 February 2019}}
• 2003 – C-recipient of the New York Film Festival God for documentary, Afghan Girl Found{{cite web |title=Steve Curry |url=http://cn.cphoto.net/overseas/08/Steve%20McCurry/index.htm |website=C Photo |access-date=26 February 2019}}
• 2003 – The Lucie Award for Photojournalism{{cite web |title=Steve Mccurry 2003 Honoree: Achievementment In Photojournalism |url=http://www.lucies.org/honorees/steve-mccurry/ |website=Lucie Foundation |access-date=26 February 2019}}
• 2005 – Photojournalism Division – International Understanding through Photography award, Photographic Society of America
• 2006 – First Place, Buddha Rising, National Geographic, National Press Photographers Associate{{cite web|title=INTERVIEW WITH Steve McCurry A LIFETIME OF WORK EXHIBITION IN BANGKOK, THAILAND|url=https://www.photoawards.com/interview-with-steve-mccurry/|url-status=dead|access-date=26 February 2019|website=International Photography Awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227060445/https://www.photoawards.com/interview-with-steve-mccurry/|archive-date=2019-02-27}}
• 2011 – Leica Hall of Fame Award{{cite web |title=Feature – Steve McCurry Wins Leica Hall of Fame AwardSteve McCurry |url=https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2K7O3RKAS29S |website=Magnum Photos |access-date=26 February 2019}}
• 2014 – Photography of Appreciation Award{{cite web |title=HIPA awards cash prize to Steve McCurry |url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2014/03/hipa-awards-cash-prize-to-steve-mccurry/ |website=British Journal of Photography |access-date=13 March 2014}}
• 2018 – Golden Doves for Peace journalistic prize issued by the Italian Research Institute Archivio Disarmo{{cite web |title=Middle East correspondent Michele Giorgio wins 2018 Golden Dove award |url=https://global.ilmanifesto.it/middle-east-correspondent-michele-giorgio-wins-2018-golden-dove-award/ |website=Il manifesto global |date=15 November 2018}}
• 2019 – Induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum{{Cite web |title=Steve McCurry |url=https://iphf.org/inductees/steve-mccurry/ |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=International Photography Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}

• 2015–2016 – Steve McCurry: India, Rubin Museum of Art, New York{{cite web|title=Steve McCurry: India|url=http://rubinmuseum.org/events/exhibitions/steve-mccurry-india|access-date=10 January 2016}}
• 2015–2016 – Steve McCurry – Icons and Women, Musei di San Domenico, Forlì, Italy
• 2016 – Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong{{cite web|title=Images by Famed Photographer Steve McCurry on View at Sundaram Tagore Gallery Pop Up|url=http://www.sundaramtagore.com/exhibitions/2016-05-11_steve-mccurry/press-release/|website=Sundaram Tagore Gallery|access-date=26 April 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807100059/http://www.sundaramtagore.com/exhibitions/2016-05-11_steve-mccurry/press-release/|archive-date=7 August 2016}}
• 2016 – The World Through His Lens: Steve McCurry Photographs, New York, United States{{Cite web|url=https://www.mwpai.org/view/exhibitions/past/the-world-through-his-lens-steve-mccurry-photographs/|title=The World through His Lens: Steve McCurry Photographs » Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute|website=www.mwpai.org|access-date=2018-03-22}}
• 2017 – The World of Steve McCurry, Brussels, Belgium{{Cite web|url=https://www.brussels.be/exhibition-world-steve-mccurry-extended|title=Exhibition. The World of Steve McCurry (extended)|website=www.brussels.be|language=en|access-date=2018-03-22}}
• 2018 – Steve McCurry Icons, Pavia, Italy{{Cite web|url=http://stevemccurry.com/exhibitions|title=Exhibitions|website=Steve McCurry|language=en|access-date=2018-03-22}}
• 2018 – 'S Wanderful-Making Pictures – Steve McCurry Solo Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan{{Cite web|url=http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/index.php/2012-01-12-03-36-46/current-exhibitions/2573-steve-mccurry|title='S WANDERFUL│Making Pictures－Steve McCurry Solo Exhibition|website=www.mocataipei.org.tw|language=zh|access-date=2018-05-05}}
• 2019 – "Le Monde de Steve McCurry", La Sucrière, Lyon, France
• 2019 – "Steve's House : permanent exhibition", Kashan, Iran
• 2019 – "Food", Musei di San Domenico, Forlì, Italy

• {{Cite book |last=Theroux |first=Paul |others=Photographs by Steve McCurry |year=1985 |title=The Imperial Way |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |isbn=978-0-395-39390-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/imperialway00ther }}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |year=1988 |title=Monsoon |location=London |publisher=Thames & Hudson |isbn=978-0-500-27850-5}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=1999 |title=Portraits |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-3839-7}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2000 |title=South Southeast |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-3938-7}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2002 |title=Sanctuary: The Temples of Angkor |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-4559-3}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2003 |title=The Path to Buddha: A Tibetan Pilgrimage |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-6314-6}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Bannon |first1=Anthony |last2=McCurry |first2=Steve |author-mask2=2 |date=2011 |title=Steve McCurry |series=Phaidon 55 |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-6259-0}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2006 |title=Looking East: Portraits |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-4637-8}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2007 |title=In the Shadow of Mountains |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-4640-8}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2009 |title=The Unguarded Moment |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-4664-4}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2012 |title=The Iconic Photographs |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-6513-3}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2013 |title=Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-6462-4}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2015 |title=From These Hands: A Journey Along the Coffee Trail |location=London |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-6898-1}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2017 |title=Afghanistan |location=Cologne |publisher=Taschen |isbn=978-3-8365-6936-1}}
• {{Cite book |last1=McCurry |first1=Steve |last2=McCurry |first2=Bonnie |author-mask2=2 |year=2018 |title=Steve McCurry: A Life in Pictures |location=London |publisher=Laurence King Publishing |isbn=978-1-78627-235-5}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2020 |title=Steve McCurry In Search of Elsewhere: The Unseen Images |location=London |publisher=Laurence King Publishing |isbn=978-1-78627-917-0}}
• {{Cite book |last=McCurry |first=Steve |author-mask=2 |year=2021 |title=Belonging: Portraits from LGBTQ Thailand |location=New York |publisher=The New Press |isbn=978-1-62097-655-5}}

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• {{Official website|stevemccurry.com}}
• [https://www.odedwagen.com/masters-of-photography-interview-with-steve-mccurry/ One on One With the Masters of Photography] – Interview with McCurry which discuss the techniques of his portrait photography
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160518033315/http://www.sudest57.com/photographers/steve-mccurry-2/valentino-campaign-ss-2016/ McCurry's gallery at photographic agency Sud Est57]
• [http://pirellicalendar.pirelli.com/en/time-machine/10s/2013 2013 Pirelli Calendar shot by McCurry]
• [http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/interview/Steve_McCurry.html Capturing the Face of Asia] – Interview with McCurry by European culture and arts online magazine Culturekiosque (2007)
• [https://unfoldingmaps.com/1-steve-mccurry/UnfoldingMaps.com] – Interview with McCurry by podcast Unfolding Maps (2020)
• [http://www.fotoflock.com/index.php/features/feature-interviews/2723-i-visualize-photo-possibilities-wherever-i-am I Visualize Photo Possibilities Wherever I Am] – Interview with McCurry by Indian photography web site "Fotoflock.com" (2009)
• {{YouTube|ROySql_No0o|One on One with Riz Khan}} – Al Jazeera interview by Riz Khan
• [http://www.gupmagazine.com/articles/its-all-mixed-an-interview-with-steve-mccurry "It's All Mixed: An Interview with Steve McCurry"], GUP Magazine (2013)

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