A sculptor at the Drala Mountain Center, formerly known as the Shambhala Mountain Center, in Colorado. Photographed by Steve McCurry in 2004.

*Top,* monks making a pilgrimage to Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (Golden Rock), in Kyaikto, Myanmar, 1994; *above,* ballerinas practicing in Croatia, 1989.

*Top,* practicing at a Shaolin martial-arts school in Zhengzhou, China, 2004; *above,* elephants and their mahouts in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2010.

A nun in study and contemplation next to her monastery, in Yangon, Myanmar, 2010.

*Top,* a woman at home in the Omo Valley, in Ethiopia, 2013; *above,* a boy resting with the family cow in Kathmandu, Nepal, 2013.

A monk in his garden at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Foresta, in Rieti, Italy, 2004.

*Top,* a man sitting next to his bombed-out taxi, in Kabul, 1992; *above,* a pilgrim at a medieval rock-hewn church in Ethiopia, 2016.

A prison preacher praying with inmates in Lakeland, Florida, 1987.

*Top,* a man’s aunt helps with his caretaking in Vietnam, 2007; *above,* a man meditating at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp, in Poland, 2005.

Around the World with Steve McCurry

Refugee camps in Pakistan, civil wars in Cambodia, religious ceremonies in India … A new book collects more than 100 images by the American photojournalist

Devotion has always defined Steve McCurry. In 1978, when he was just 27, he left his suburban Pennsylvania home for India, with nothing but a rucksack and a camera. He was going to document the overlooked populations of Asia.

A year later, wearing the traditional perahan tunban of the mujahideen, he crossed into rebel-controlled Afghanistan. It was 1979 and the Soviet invasion was imminent. McCurry grew out his beard and sewed rolls of film into his clothes. “As soon as I crossed the border,” he said at the time, “I encountered about 40 houses and a few schools that were just bombed out.” The photos he took, the first to illuminate the brutality of the invasion, kick-started his career and won the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award.