Picture Afghan Girl

I always glimpsed that picture in the past. In paintings, magazine covers, it was practically iconic.

A dusty, young face, and those deep penetrating green eyes. The eyes were the most captivating feature of this subject, almost cat like in intensity, framed in pastels, red and green. It became the symbolic picture of the Afghan struggle at the time (maybe still is).

Sharbat Gula,
Pakistan, 1984

Afghan Girl Poster

Please contact Steve Curry to purchase the poster (info@stevecurry.com).
$35 mailed within the US.
A portion of the proceeds will go towards helping the children of Afghanistan.

(See also: Poster, Steve Curry)


"Her look kind of summed up the horror, because her village had been bombed and her relatives had been killed, and she'd had to make this two-week trek through the mountains to the refugee camp." - Steve Curry		She's now the married mother of three girls and living in a remote ethnic Pushtun region of Afghanistan with her family. "There is not one family that has not eaten the bitterness of war" - Afghan merchant

A flash presentation, the search for Sharbat Gula

Wallpaper

Also from steve's wonderful gallery, I had created this desktop wallpaper. Removed certain elements from the picture, touched up and filtered!

Source:

Wallpaper:

download 1024x768 jpg

References:
Steve Curry's website (the photographer)
NPR - Afghan Girl mystery solved
National Geographic - A life revealed
National Geographic - Afghan Girls Fund

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