Steve McCurry’s Blog

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been a fan of Steve McCurry’s photography. I recall perusing the pages of National Geographic and being stunned by Steve’s imagery. Through the years I have studied Steve’s work and have been inspired by many of his books and exhibits.

A few years back I ran into Steve in Jodhpur India, Steve was leading the National Geographic photography tour and I was leading a group with Jim Cline photo tours. Both of our groups were exploring and photographing the back streets of Jodhpur.

I had talked to Steve after a lecture at MOPA in San Diego a few months prior, asking him for the name of a fixer in Afghanistan. I think Steve sort of, half remembered our discussion in San Diego, so when I met him there in Jodhpur I think he was initially trying to remember who I was. Our conversation ensued for several minutes until my photography group caught up with us. No one seemed to pay particular attention to “this guy” that I was talking to.  Finally, I asked someone in our group to take a picture of me with Steve and I handed off my camera. After Steve walked away to rejoin his group, I asked those around me if they knew who I had been talking to. They said, “no”, to which I replied “oh, that’s Steve McCurry, the photographer who created  iconic images like the Afghan girl, for National Geographic magazine”.

Anyway, being a fan of Steve McCurry’s work meant that I had seen just about every book that he ever produced including South Southeast, Portraits, Looking East, and The Unguarded Moment. Then, recently, I discovered that Steve was blogging, and in that process of blogging, he was posting many  images that I had never seen before. So, now Steve’s blog has become one of my most frequent stops in cyberspace.

You owe it to yourself to have a look at Steve McCurry’s blog, including his most recent post with images of Cuba . Also don’t miss his post entitled “The End of an Era” which is about Steve shooting the last roll of Kodachrome! There are other posts also, which are “must sees”  including “the art of timing” and “family”

Since Steve’s most recent blog post was about Cuba I thought I would also take a moment here to give you a link over to Jim Cline photo tours where we are now offering a “humanitarian mission” to Cuba. To see the details Click here

Jim has some wonderful Cuba images. Here are a few.

Over the years,  I have also been lucky enough to shoot several NGO jobs in Cuba. Here’s a slideshow of images shot a few years ago. Click Here

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