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Steve McCurry
Magnum Photos for National Geographic
Magnum Photos for National Geographic
01 January, 1991
Tire tracks in the burning Al Ahmadi oil fields, 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.
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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