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The page Photojournalism, touches on the topics extensive history, professional organizations, ethical and legal considerations, unethical practices, and the impact of new technologies. I believe most of the information about the topic is already there. However, the page lacks citations for key facts. Also, when there was a citation, some of the material taken was loosely plagiarized by Wikipedia standards.

The talk page is not very active. The last few edits (before me) were made in December of 2017 and then February of 2016. With that there are only twenty-four comments in the suggestion box since 2004.

On a good note, the article is neutral without an bias towards any particular thing. This article also keeps up with new technologies such as the iPhones new role in photojournalism.

Possible Articles to Evaluate
Steve McCurry

I would like to add more about his earlier and current work into the article. Also, the conflicts he ran into while in Afghanistan due to the war. The article also doesn't mention a whole lot about finding the "Afghan Girl" so, I would expand on that. He was also arrested a few times in different countries and that isn't mentioned on the page. I would like to highlight some of his other famous photos that have interesting back stories. Another thing I would contribute is looking into the photo manipulation theory because I've written papers on this person and I haven't seen anything about the manipulation of his photos. This section doesn't have a whole lot of citations and I would check the citations to see if the information presented there is correct. The "Life and Work" section doesn't go into much detail and there are a lot of one-line paragraphs that could use some filler. I can find most of my information on the National Geographic website and Steve McCurry's website.

Afghan Girl

A big thing I would add is the backstory of the image when McCurry returned from Afghanistan/Pakistan. Originally, National Geographic did not want to publish the image and there was a lot of controversy. There hasn't been anything about McCurry's aid to the girl, he has set up a fund for her and has given her money. Since this article has been edited, Sharbat Gula has been arrested (2016) on fraud charges in Pakistan. She has been living in Pakistan with false papers and may be sentenced 5 to 14 years in prison. Another thing I would expand on is the pop culture section of this article since I believe it had a huge impact on the first world. Most of these things can be found on the National Geographic website, Steve McCurry website, and various credible news organizations (example- BBC).

Potential Contributions to the Page Steve McCurry
I will fill out some of the details in the "life and work section" and expand on the intro. I will provide a little more information on the "Afghan Girl" section and where the girl is today. I will investigate the claims of McCurry manipulating his photos, the section on this feels a little biased. Because it feels biased, I will try to find sources that counteract the stance the section is taking. There are also some awards and exhibitions that need to be added to McCurry's list. I will also add some details about his other work and projects. Another thing I will check is if all the existing citations are correct and there aren't any forms of plagiarism.

Bibliography for the Wiki Steve McCurry

 * Laurent, Oliver. “Steve McCurry: I'm Not a Photojournalist.” Time, Time, 30 May 2016, time.com/4351725/steve-mccurry-not-photojournalist/.
 * Letzter, Rafi. “The 'Afghan Girl' Photographer Faked Some of His Photos. Does It Matter?” Business Insider, Business Insider, 21 May 2016, www.businessinsider.com/steve-mccurry-photo-editing-scandal-2016-5.
 * Simons, Jake. “The Story behind the World's Best Photograph.” CNN, Cable News Network, 2 Dec. 2016, www.cnn.com/style/article/steve-mccurry-afghan-girl-photo/index.html.
 * Khan, Christine Hauser and Ismail. “'Afghan Girl' in 1985 National Geographic Photo Is Arrested in Pakistan.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 26 Oct. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/world/asia/afghan-woman-in-famed-national-geographic-photo-is-arrested-in-pakistan.html.
 * Hajek, Daniel. “How One Photographer Captured A Piercing Gaze That Shook The World.” NPR, NPR, 26 July 2015, www.npr.org/2015/07/26/425659961/how-one-photographer-captured-a-piercing-gaze-that-shook-the-world.
 * McCurry, Photograph by Steve. “A Life Revealed.” The Afghan Girl, National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2002, www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2002/04/afghan-girl-revealed/.
 * Matthews, Katherine. “It's All Mixed: An Interview with Steve McCurry.” GUP, GUP Magazine, 13 Nov. 2013, www.gupmagazine.com/articles/its-all-mixed-an-interview-with-steve-mccurry.
 * Iqbal, Nosheen. “US Photographer Steve McCurry: Go with the Flow.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 28 June 2010, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/28/steve-mccurry-photography.

Steve McCurry Draft (currently editing)
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'''American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist, Steve McCurry has taken some of the most recognizable photos in the history of photography. His most famous photo is of the "Afghan Girl", the girl with the piercing green eyes that periodically appears on the cover of National Geographic. McCurry has photographed many assignments for National Geographic and has been a member of Magnum since 1986.''' [great, but not sure Magunum membership date is important for the first paragraph]

McCurry is the recipient of numerous awards including, the Robert Capa Gold Medal, Magazine Photographer of the Year, awarded by the National Press Photographers Association; the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal,[2] and two first-place prizes in the World Press Photo contest (1985 and 1992).[3]

Life and work
McCurry attended Penn State University. He originally planned to study cinematography and filmmaking, but instead gained a degree in theater arts and graduated in 1974. He became interested in photography when he started taking pictures for the Penn State newspaper, The Daily Collegian.[4]

After graduating, McCurry worked at Today's Post in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania for two years. Then he left for India, which he called his favorite country [to be encyclopedic, say something like "Then he left for India, which he called his favorite country, to freelance in 1978" and put a reference here to the interview]''', to freelance in 1978. After working in India for a year, McCurry traveled to northern Pakistan where he met two Afghans who told him about the war across the border in Afghanistan'''.

McCurry's career was launched when, disguised in Afghani garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled areas of Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion.[5] '''"As soon as I crossed the border, I came across about 40 houses and a few schools that were just bombed out," he says. "They were literally destroying whole villages with helicopter gunships." He left with rolls of film sewn into his turban and stuffed in his socks and underwear'''. These images were subsequently published by The New York Times, TIME and Paris Match[6] and won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad.[7]

'''McCurry covered more armed conflicts like the Iran-Iraq War, Lebanon Civil War, the Cambodian Civil War, the Islamic insurgency in the Philippines, the Gulf War and the Afghan Civil War. There have been a couple of dangerous moments where McCurry came close to losing his life. He was almost drowned in India and he survived an airplane crash in Yugoslavia. McCurry has had his work featured in magazines worldwide and he is a frequent contributor to National Geographic.'''

'''McCurry concentrates on the toll war takes on humans. He intends to show what war does to not only the landscape, but to the people who inhabit that land. “Most of my images are grounded in people. I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape, that you could call the human condition.” What McCurry wants his viewers to take away from his photographs is the "human connection between all of us." He believes there is always some common thing between all humans despite the differences in religion, language, ethnicity, etc. McCurry also states, "I have found that I get completely consumed by the importance of the story I am telling, the feeling that the world has got to know. It's never about the adrenaline. It's about the story." However, sometimes McCurry has witnessed some "horrific" and "distressing" sights. In times like these, he uses his camera as a "shield" because it's easier to witness these events through a viewfinder.'''

'''On September 10th, 2001, McCurry had just gotten back from Tibet. The morning of September 11th, McCurry received a call saying the World Trade Center was on fire. He went up to the roof of his building and started taking photographs, he didn't know it was a plane that hit the towers. McCurry was on the roof when both of the towers fell, "they were just gone. It didn’t seem possible. Like you’re seeing something but you don’t really believe what you’re seeing." After the fall of the towers, McCurry ran to Ground Zero with his assistant. He describes the scene, "there was this very fine white powder everywhere and all this office paper, but there was no recognizable office equipment—no filing cabinets, telephones, computers. It seemed like the whole thing had been pulverized." McCurry left later that night and went back early on September 12th, he didn't have any press credentials and had to sneak past security. He was eventually caught and escorted off Ground Zero, he wouldn't go back again. '''

McCurry is portrayed in a TV documentary The Face of the Human Condition (2003) by Denis Delestrac.

McCurry switched from shooting color slide film to digital capture in 2005 for the convenience of editing in the field and transmitting images to photo editors. He admitted to no nostalgia about working in film in an interview with The Guardian. "Perhaps old habits are hard to break, but my experience is that the majority of my colleagues, regardless of age, have switched over... The quality has never been better. You can work in extremely low light situations, for example."[11]

'''McCurry shoots in both film and digital, however, admits he prefers shooting with transparency film. Eastman Kodak gifted the last roll of film to ever be produced by Kodak. The roll was processed in July of 2010 by Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas. Most of these photos were published on the Internet by Vanity Fair. McCurry states, "I shot it for 30 years and I have several hundred thousand pictures on Kodachrome in my archive. I'm trying to shoot 36 pictures that act as some kind of wrap up – to mark the passing of Kodachrome. It was a wonderful film." '''

In May 2013 McCurry was Pirelli's choice of photographer to shoot the pictures for the 2013 Pirelli Calendar in Rio de Janeiro.

"Afghan Girl"
McCurry took his most recognized portrait, "Afghan Girl",[14] in December 1984 of an approximately 12-year-old Pashtun orphan in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.[15] '''McCurry found the girl when he heard "unexpected laughter" coming from children inside a one-room school tent for girls. "I noticed this one little girl with these incredible eyes, and I instantly knew that this was really the only picture I wanted to take," he says. This was the first time the girl had ever been photographed.'''

At first, the editor of National Geographic Magazine didn't want the photo to appear on the cover for fear of it being too "disturbing." Nevertheless,the image itself was named as "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine, and her face became famous as the cover photograph on the June 1985 issue. The photo has also been widely used on Amnesty International brochures, posters, and calendars.The identity of the "Afghan Girl" remained unknown for over 17 years until McCurry and a National Geographic team located the woman, Sharbat Gula, in 2002. McCurry said, “Her skin is weathered; there are wrinkles now, but she is as striking as she was all those years ago.”

Controversy about photo manipulation
In 2016 McCurry was accused of extensively manipulating his images with Photoshop and by other means, removing individuals and other elements. [16][17]

In a May 2016 interview with PetaPixel, McCurry did not specifically deny making major changes, indicating that he now defines his work as "visual storytelling" and as "art". However, he subsequently added that others print and ship his images while he is travelling, implying that they were responsible for the significant manipulation. "That is what happened in this case. It goes without saying that what happened with this image was a mistake for which I have to take responsibility," he concluded.[18]

When discussing the issue with a writer for Time's Lightbox website, McCurry provided similar comments about being a "visual storyteller", though without suggesting that the manipulation was done by others without his knowledge. In fact, the Time writer made the following statement, "Faced with mounting evidence of his own manipulations, McCurry has been forced to address his position in photography." In neither interview did he discuss when the heavy photo manipulation began, or which images have been manipulated. However, considering the controversy it has created, he said that “going forward, I am committed to only using the program in a minimal way, even for my own work taken on personal trips.”[19] McCurry also offered the following conclusion to Time Lightbox, "Reflecting on the situation … even though I felt that I could do what I wanted to my own pictures in an aesthetic and compositional sense, I now understand how confusing it must be for people who think I’m still a photojournalist."

=== Awards ===

Exhibitions
2015-2016: Steve McCurry: India, Rubin Museum of Art, New York[25]

2016: Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong[26]

2016: The World Through His Lens: Steve McCurry Photographs, New York, United States 

2017: The World of Steve McCurry, Bussels, Belgium 

2018: Steve McCurry Icons, Pavia, Italy

Publications
The Imperial Way. Text aby Paul Theroux. Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin, 1985. ISBN 978-0395393901.

Monsoon. London: Thames and Hudson, 1988; 1995. ISBN 978-0500278505.

Portraits. London: Phaidon, 1999; 2012. ISBN 978-0714838397.

South Southeast. London: Phaidon, 2000. ISBN 978-0714839387.

Sanctuary: The Temples of Angkor. London: Phaidon, 2002. ISBN 978-0714845593.

The Path to Buddha: A Tibetan Pilgrimage. London: Phaidon, 2003; 2012. ISBN 978-0714863146.

Steve McCurry. Phaidon 55 series. London: Phaidon, 2005. ISBN 978-0714862590.

Looking East. London: Phaidon, 2006. ISBN 978-0714846378.

In the Shadow of Mountains. London: Phaidon, 2007. ISBN 978-0714846408

The Unguarded Moment. London: Phaidon, 2009. ISBN 978-0714846644.

The Iconic Photographs. London: Phaidon, 2011. ISBN 978-0714865133.

Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs. London: Phaidon, 2013. ISBN 978-0714864624.

From These Hands: A Journey Along the Coffee Trail. London: Phaidon, 2015. ISBN 978-0714868981.

What Should Be Edited

 * Add more Wikilinks.
 * Make clear headings.
 * Review all other content to make sure the sources are correct and there isn't any other plagiarism.
 * Add citations on content that doesn't have citations.
 * Clean up sentences that don't make sense.

Peer Review
I think you have great first draft and you have taken the necessary steps to update the article. I think it would be interesting to add a section that discusses the impact of his work, if you can find it. The awards section is kind of long, so I try to shorten it and provide the most important awards and then link to a subpage that would have an entire list. I know many biographies on Wikipedia have a personal life section, so that might be interesting to include. There are some sentences and quotes that require citations, so I would keep that in mind. Additionally, I would look at incorporating more scholarly sources if at all possible. Overall I think you have done a good job. Michaelaj91 (talk) 19:12, 6 March 2018 (UTC)