Steve McCurry 2008

photographer of the 2008 Amnesty International wall calendar

Holiday gifts for promoting human rights worldwide available at www.amnestyusa.org/store

This year the calendar with color images by renowned photojournalist Steve McCurry celebrates the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR).

American photojournalist Steve McCurry from Magnum Photos magnumphotos.com, born 1950, graduated from Pennsylvania State University. His career began with wearing native clothing. He crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes that contained some of the world's first images of the conflict. His coverage won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad Showing Courage and Enterprise.

A high point in his career was finding Sharbat Gula, the previously unidentified Afghan refugee girl, whose picture has been described as one of the most recognizable photographs in the world.

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