I like photography so I going to write about one of my favourite photographers: Steve McCurry. 

Steve McCurry is a american photojournalist and he was born on February 24, 1950 in Pennsylvania. I´ve been reading about him and I knew he wanted to study cinematography, in fact, he started studying cinematography and filmmaking in Penn State University, but finally he finished in theater arts and he graduated in 1974. 

His career as photographer started when he worked in "The Daily Collegian" a newspaper of Pennsylvania as photographer, but his great leap he get when he started taking photographies around the world, specially in Afghanistan, in this place he took a portrait of a girl and it was really famous because it´s a beautiful portrait and it was front page in National Geographic in June, 1985. 

Then, he has covered several war situations and others human conflicts and themes around the world, but today he gives class in USA and Asia.    

I like this guy because I love his photos, specially his portraits, he has several beautiful portraits, and I put these here due to are the most representative (or maybe not, depending of your point of view) of his work.  

Steve has a great sensitivity for the portraits and he knows how to catch the precise moment for the take, he has said that he waits the instant for taking the photo, he finds a worthy person or group for being captured and he come back one, two, until ten times for taking the master peace, it´s necessary waiting for the moment for seeing the essence of the person through their eyes. Brilliant.

A photo of Steve McCurry by Ahmet Sel

And his website: http://stevemccurry.com/