While Steve McCurry's photography is dominated by images of war and violence, he goes beyond these themes by emphasising the human emotions at the heart of his subjects. One of his most renowned photos is a portrait of the then 12-year-old Sharbat Gula at Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.
Read MoreHe captured Gula in her red veil against a blue-green background, the child's piercing gaze echoing the weight of the Afghan war. The Afghan Girl graced the cover of National Geographic magazine for its June 1985 issue, and is recognised as one of the magazine's most famous covers.
In the middle of war, McCurry's photographs have managed to remind the viewer of the humans behind the armed conflict. He has photographed the ordinary people impacted by wars, such as the Gulf War.
In 1982, the artist travelled to Beirut, Lebanon in 1982, and came across a group of five children playing with a wrecked tank near the battlefield. Children Playing, near Beirut, Lebanon shows two children dangled over the tank's barrel, one hopped off the armoured vehicle and onto a tyre burrowed into the dry earth, one hid behind the tank, and a young woman stood atop the military artillery, all of them seemingly unconcerned by the empty shells of explosives strewn around them and the artist snapping photos a few feet away.
Aside from covering armed conflicts, Steve McCurry's portraits also provide a peek into the world's vanishing civilisations, including Rabari tribal elder, Rajasthan, India (2010). Before starting the project, the photographer asked Kodak for the last roll of Kodachrome 64 after the firm had announced in June 2009 that it would be discontinued.
It seemed fitting for the artist to shoot a nomadic tribe in India whose way of existence was progressively receding from modern civilisations, similar to the demise of Kodachrome 64 when Kodak provided it to him.
