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Daily Life - 1st prize

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Through 103 tunnels in the Himalayan foothills.

January 01, 1983

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Breakfast Tea being passed between cars on the railway between Peshawar and Lahore, Pakistan.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Tourists dine in the 'Palace on Wheels', once owned by a Maharaja.

January 01, 1983

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Second-class passengers cram themselves and their belongings onto the Assam Mail.

January 01, 1983

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Farmers take their goat to the market in West Bengal, India.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: The nation has 3,633 rail bridges.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: A shave in Pakistan's Peshawar station.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Farmers take their hay to the market.

January 01, 1982

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Children swim along the Dhaka-Chittagong rail line, Bangladesh.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: At Agra Fort station, travelers see the famous Jama Mosque.

January 01, 1983

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Rail road workers outside the Taj Mahal, India.

January 01, 1983

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Man in Landi Kotal, Pakistan.

January 01, 1983

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Washing in the Yamuna River as a steam train passes by above, Agra, India.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent.

January 01, 1983

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Family on the train track during the monsoon in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The rail track has been built to remain above the annual inundation. The tracks are often occupied by entire villages, camping till the floods subside.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent.

January 01, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Travelers come and go in the Howrah train station in Calcutta, India.

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Nature - 1st prize

Steve McCurry

for National Geographic

1985 Photo Contest - Daily Life - 1st prize
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Steve McCurry

for National Geographic

01 January, 1984

By rail across the Indian subcontinent.

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Steve McCurry

After graduating from Pennsylvania University, Steve McCurry worked at a newspaper for two years and then left the United States to freelance on the Indian subcontinent. The mate...

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