The Last Roll

For nearly four decades, photojournalist Steve McCurry has routinely carried his gear through security checkpoints while covering important stories around the world. In June 2010, though, an order from an airport security guard in Mumbai, India, made him a bit nervous. “He said, ‘Take a picture,” McCurry recalls. “He wanted me to click the shutter to prove my camera was real. But it was a 35mm SLR, and I still had a roll of film loaded in it-normally I would've rewound it already-and I didn't want to unload it. It was quite a process to convince him it was a real camera so I wouldn't have to waste the shot!”