Afghanistan 1984

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Expression oh so haunting
Piercing eyes which bore
Sharbat Gula Afghan
1984



Sharbat Gula became Afghanistan’s most famous refugee after US photographer Steve McCurry captured her face in a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghan border in the 1980s. This picture which later went on to become a symbolic image was published on the front cover of the National Geographic



Don Matthews
December 2022



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