For 17 years, the world knew her face but not her story. In 1984, a young Afghan girl sat inside a refugee camp in Pakistan, displaced by war, her future unknown. Photographer Steve McCurry took a ...

"Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, Pakistan," Steve McCurry’s iconic image made famous as the cover of National Geographic's June 1985 issue, depicts a young, Afghan refugee living in Peshawar, Pakistan ...

In December 1984, Steve McCurry walked into an informal school at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. Fifteen girls sat in a tent classroom. McCurry noticed one immediately. Her green ...

Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the ...

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