1992 Photo Contest, General News, 1st prize
Photographer

Steve McCurry

Magnum Photos for National Geographic

01 March, 1991

Dead horse in the burning oil fields of southern Kuwait. As his army retreated from Kuwait, at the end of the First Gulf War, Saddam Hussein ordered the ignition of the oil fields that scatter the country. The effect was an ecological disaster of unimaginable scale.

About the photographer

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...

Technical information

Camera
Leica

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