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Dal Lake Sunset, Kashmir, India, 1998

"A 16th-century fortress looms over the dawn-burnished waters of Dal Lake in the Vale of Kashmir. India controls this densely populated, predominantly Muslim area. Pakistan depends on rivers flowing out of Kashmir—the Jhelum, the Chenab, and the Indus—to irrigate fields and generate electricity."

—From "Kashmir: Trapped in Conflict," September 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Steve McCurry