Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Steve McCurry" in English language version.
... disguised himself in Afghan clothes and crossed illegally into Afghanistan, just before the Soviet invasion.
... a Pashtun orphan in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistan border, was taken in December 1984 and published the following year.
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.
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.
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.
To cover the war, he had dressed in salwar kameez and turban, smuggling rolls of film across the Afghan border, sewn into his coat.
He is practical about the benefits and has little patience for the nostalgic romance surrounding photographers who work only with film.
