Steve McCurry, a famous photographer whose image of an Afghan girl with brilliant green eyes for National Geographic has become iconic, has been given a great and sad gig—Kodak has handed him the last production roll of Kodachrome to take and shoot. He’s doing it in grand style, traveling all over the world, with a film crew shooting a documentary about it.
I wanted to be a photographer for National Geographic when I was a teenager. I knew nothing about how to do that, and for numerous reasons I won’t go into I never found out or took the chance. I played it safe with a nice steady lab job and didn’t pursue a dream. …