He began his freelance career by arriving in India with a suitcase full of Kodachrome film rolls and went on to document the subcontinent in its utmost glory with his philosophy of the self-defining individual picture. “In odd yet witty juxtapositions that McCurry captures so effortlessly are also glimpses of other animals fleeting or standing as mute witnesses to the everyday chaos of the streets, whether it is a cat patiently sitting by a worker in a shop, buffaloes up to their neck in water in flooded streets, or even heads of tigers as hunting trophies in a palace.”