Sharbat Gula (born 20 March 1972) is an Afghan woman of the Pathan ethnic group, who became known worldwide as the Afghan Girl with Green Eyes (or in English, Afghan Girl) when her portrait appeared on the cover of the National Geographic in June 1985. The photo with the penetrating green eyes symbolized the misery of the Afghan War (1979-1989).
Photographer Steve McCurry took the picture in 1984 in the refugee camp Nasir Bagh near Peshawar in Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan. The girl was then about 13 years old. For seventeen years her name remained unknown to the outside world. Only in 2002, after the United States invaded Afghanistan, McCurry found her again.
My husband ( Arie Lok ) and I are both fanatical photographers so we regularly go out together to photograph beautiful landscapes, animals, birds and actually everything that is beautiful.
He with his Nikon and I with my Canon.
We were regularly asked to do something with these photos, ..
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