article_snippet: One which is displayed prominently in McCurry retrospective exhibition was taken in Kuwait in 1991, during the first Gulf War.
article_snippet: As soon as I crossed the border, I came across about 40 houses and a few schools that were just bombed out," McCurry says.
article_snippet: They were literally destroying whole villages with helicopter gunships.
article_snippet: McCurry covered the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf wars and several conflicts in Afghanistan, as well as those further afield in Lebanon, Cambodia and the Philippines.
article_snippet: When you're working in a war zone, you're living moment to moment with people trying to kill you," McCurry says.
highlights_snippet: Steve McCurry's has worked in most of the world's war zones over a 40-year career .
  