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Nov 26, 2021 · The "Afghan Girl" with piercing green eyes who gained worldwide recognition after appearing on a 1985 National Geographic cover has fled her home country and arrived in Rome.
Jul 11, 2020 · In June 1985, the photo appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine. It has become the most recognized photograph in the history of the magazine: In 2002, 17 years later, a team from National Geographic returned to Pakistan to search for the Afghan girl with the green eyes. When they found her, an FBI analyst, forensic sculptor and ...
Sep 11, 2023 · At the Nasir Bagh camp 1, where a girls’ school had been set up, McCurry came across a class of 15 girls. Among them, one stood out for her startling green eyes – his camera snapped. Her look can only be described as haunted, penetrating and intense. Steve Mccurry – Sharbat Gula, Nasir Bagh Refugee Camp, Peshawar, Pakistan, 2002.
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Nov 25, 2021 · Gulla gained international fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee girl, after war photographer Steve McCurry’s photograph of her, with piercing green eyes, was published on the cover of National ...
Nov 25, 2021 · Gulla gained international fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee girl, after war photographer Steve McCurry's photograph of her, with piercing green eyes, was published on the cover of National ...
Jul 28, 2016 · Became emblematic of the plight of “refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp” deserving of the compassion of the Western viewer. Steve McCurry, National Geographic Society photographer spotted a girl with enchanting eyes among the students in an informal school in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in 1984, it was then when he took the iconic photograph.The picture, titled Afghan Girl ...
Nov 25, 2021 · In 1984, Gula became famous worldwide for her piercing green eyes on the cover of National Geographic, a symbol of the international refugee crisis. The National Geographic cover of Sharbat Gula ...
