Steve McCurry, Instagram photo, Beirut, Lebanon, 1982 | Latest Steve McCurry’s Instagram Picture

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Beirut, Lebanon, 1982. I photographed this man waiting for relatives on one side of the divided city. After years of civil war the center of Beirut was in ruins. The city was divided between east and west with only a few checkpoints allowing people to pass. Warring factions controlled different parts of the city. They each required credentials to cross the "Green Line" that divided the eastern and western parts of the city. I carried 5 different credentials issued by the warring factions in separate pockets.

Steve McCurry, Instagram photo, Beirut, Lebanon, 1982

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