1984. Do you remember?
I don't remember where I first saw this picture, but I clearly remember the girl in it and her piercing sea green eyes.
Who is she? What happened to her?
Photo by Steve McCurry.
Her name is Sharbat Gula. The picture was taken in 1984 in Peshawar, Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Back then, the photographer didn't know her name, he just took the picture which was featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Sharbat was orphaned during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan. Her village was attacked by Soviet helicopter gunships sometime in the early 1980s. The Soviet strike killed her parents—forcing her, her siblings and grandmother to hike over the mountains to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan.
The picture was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the magazine and became a symbol both of the 1980s Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide.
The Search for the Afghan Girl
A team from National Geographic, including photographer Steve McCurry went back to Pakistan to try and identify the girl from the 1984 picture. The team had no success until someone said he knew her brother. "The second I saw the color of her brother's eyes, I knew we had the right family," said a member of the team.
Sharbat Gula's brother. Photo by Steve McCurry.
After Sharbat's family granted permission for her to meet with the man who photographed her 17 years ago, McCurry knew immediately, even after so many years, that he had found her again. "Her eyes are as haunting now as they were then," he said.
When Sharbat agreed to have her picture taken for the second time in her life, she came out from the secrecy to tell her story. She wanted the people around the world who knew her face to know that she survived the refugee camp in Pakistan.
She married and had four daughters, one of whom died in infancy. She has returned to anonymity and lives according to the customs and traditions of her culture and religion. She will not give another media interview and she wishes not to be contacted.
Photo by Steve McCurry.
Beautiful children are all over the world,
suffering every day, every minute.
What do we do to prevent it?
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."
-El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
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