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In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, nursing, crude dentistry, even bodily functions. In the secular West, where nothing is sacred, everything seems hidden yet in Asia, where nothing is hidden, everything is sacred.

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Steve McCurry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 23
Freelancer
Photographer
Photojournalist
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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