Daily Life, 1st prize
Steve McCurry
for National Geographic
for National Geographic
01 January, 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.
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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