Steve McCurry

LEICA - A CENTURY OF VISION shows how the invention of the 35mm format revolutionized documentary photography. Featuring legendary and contemporary photographers the film reveals the camera's enduring power to capture history as it unfolds.

She was one of the world's most famous faces, yet no one knew who she was. Her image appeared on the front of magazines and books, posters, lapel pins, and even rugs, but she didn't know it. Now, after searching for 17 years, National Geographic has once again found the Afghan girl with the haunting green eyes.

In this special documentary, we follow Steve McCurry on his quest of shooting the last roll of Kodak Kodachrome film ever made. On the 22th of June 2009, after 74 years of manufacturing the world's best-selling color film, Kodak stopped producing Kodachrome. Steve McCurry had the opportunity to get the last Kodachrome film cartridge produced by Kodak factories in 2010. He then left for India and went to Bombay and Rajasthan, then to Istanbul and London before returning to New York to shoot the last images with this roll.

If something of import has taken place in our lifetimes, chances are that Steve McCurry has photographed it, from the wars in the Arab world to the 9/11 attacks. Denis Delestrac’s documentary on the photographer charts McCurry’s journey through a restless life spent on constant move, chronicling our times and living with the intense loneliness and trauma that came along with his work. Today, surrounded by a loving family, McCurry is finally home but never not in the pursuit of color.