"the First World's Third World Mona Lisa"
Her name is Sherbat Gul . This photograph was taken by Steve McCurry when she was 12 years only at Nasir bagh refugee camp in Pakistan. She took refuge there after her parents were killed in Soviet bombardment . Although her name was not known, her picture, titled Afghan Girl, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and her piercing sea-green colored eyes staring directly into the camera, became a symbol both of the 1980s Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide. The image was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the magazine, and the cover itself is one of the most famous of the National Geographic.After her marriage at the age of 16 years she moved to remote village in Afghanistan .In 2012 McCurry visited nasira bagh to meet her again and located her in remote village in Afghanistan Sherbat now mother of 3 girls , remember the moment when the photograph was taken but was unaware of the fame it has generated . See the images taken at different time frame .
Her name is Sherbat Gul . This photograph was taken by Steve McCurry when she was 12 years only at Nasir bagh refugee camp in Pakistan. She took refuge there after her parents were killed in Soviet bombardment . Although her name was not known, her picture, titled Afghan Girl, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and her piercing sea-green colored eyes staring directly into the camera, became a symbol both of the 1980s Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide. The image was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the magazine, and the cover itself is one of the most famous of the National Geographic.After her marriage at the age of 16 years she moved to remote village in Afghanistan .In 2012 McCurry visited nasira bagh to meet her again and located her in remote village in Afghanistan Sherbat now mother of 3 girls , remember the moment when the photograph was taken but was unaware of the fame it has generated . See the images taken at different time frame .
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