"If you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view."

Famous photographer Steven McCurry was born in 1950 in Philadelphia. When he was young, he always wanted to be a documentary filmmaker because he wanted to tell the story of the world. But when he graduated from Cum Laude university, he joined a newspaper as a photographer. He realized that photos too, could tell stories and not soon afterwards, McCurry went to India to freelance as a photojournalist. But it's when he crossed the Pakistan border, he's career started. McCurry's photographs are sometimes joyous but sometimes painful because he focuses on the human consequences of war but the photos always show emotion, the soul. He once said "if you wait, people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view." I think Steven McCurry's best photo is the all famous Afghan Girl because it tells me my own version of a story and every time I look at it, it bombards me with emotions. I could almost feel myself drowning in the unhappiness and seriousness of the picture. Whenever i try to look around the picture, it's like my eyes forces me to look back at the Afghan Girl's eyes. The picture itself gives me this eerie feeling. I think McCurry is trying to show us the misery of the people in war because the picture doesn't show any signs of joy or freedom. The Afghan Girl's eyes seem to follow you, McCurry did this on purpose because he wanted that effect so he took a close up picture of her face and planted her eyes right in the middle. This photo is one of the many photos where he does a close up on the human face. Maybe this photo can convince the people of Afghanistan to stop fighting each other after they have seen the sadness in the photo and realize that they to, feel the same way the Afghan Girl does after all, pictures are better than words. This is a great picture because it has all the elements, like size, foreground, background, color and the best, it tells humanity too. The photo shows a journey, what the Afghan Girl has been through in her life but we wouldn't know for sure what it was that made her soul look so serious in the picture. I think this photo will last long into the future as a symbol of proverty.