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NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 4, 2021 WHAT'S UP! 3 FAQ Distinguished Speaker Series: Steve McCurry WHEN — 7 p.m. Dec. 2 WHERE — Crystal Bridges Museum, 600 Museum Way in Bentonville COST — $15 ($12/ members) INFO — 418-5700; crystal- bridges.org FYI — Find out more about Canopy NWA's mission or ways to support the organiza- tion at canopynwa.org. COVER STORY Worth A Thousand Words Photographer talks about career, community Since 2016, Canopy NWA has been recognized as a designated refugee resettlement site and has resettled over 60 households in Northwest Arkansas. Similarly, photographer Steve McCurry's work in Afghanistan has spread beyond art and photography. In 2004, McCurry founded ImagineAsia, a nonprofit organization that partners with community leaders to provide educational resources and opportunities for youth in Afghanistan. McCurry will discuss both his visual work and his humanitarian endeavors during a moderated discussion Dec. 2 at Crystal Bridges Museum. (Courtesy Photo) Photojournalist Steve McCurry's striking 1984 portrait of a 12-year-old Pashtun girl living in a refugee camp in Pakistan became perhaps the photographer's best-known image of his career when it was published on the June cover of National Geographic in 1985. McCurry will speak on his lengthy, continent-crossing career, as well as refugee resettlement efforts in Northwest Arkansas, Dec. 2 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. (Image copyright @ Steve McCurry) JOCELYN MURPHY NWA Democrat-Gazette M y work has generally been about people — how people live, the human condition," American photojournalist Steve McCurry begins. Part of documenting the human condition meant covering areas of conflict around the world, which led McCurry to Pakistan in 1984. That's where he captured what is likely the most famous image of his career. "Afghan Girl," the portrait of the 12-year- old girl with piercing green eyes that covered the June 1985 issue of National Geographic, became emblematic of the refugee crisis that displaced millions and spanned decades following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Last week, on Nov. 23, the country passed its hundredth day under majority Taliban rule since the militant group and political movement regained control after U.S. troops withdrew this summer. Besides the political and economic consequences of the takeover, the Taliban's extreme Deobandi fundamentalist ideology has renewed global awareness of the region's humanitarian concerns and prompted a new wave of refugees fleeing the country, on top of the millions already displaced in neighboring countries as well as within Afghanistan's borders. "At this kind of critical time when Afghanistan is back in the news, I'll talk about that. I'll talk about people being displaced, whether from Syria or Yemen or Afghanistan or Iraq. But the other part of it will be also my career and what I've done and celebrating culture and diversity, the commonality of humanity," McCurry says of his Dec. 2 visit to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. McCurry is the final guest on the museum's 2021 Distinguished Speaker series. Crystal Bridges has partnered with refugee resettlement agency Canopy NWA to bring McCurry to Bentonville, as well as draw attention to the See Words Page 4