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
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 
Where is she today?
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I don’t know where she is today but google ‘sharbat gula now’ you will see she’s an old woman. Like we all are. That was a very emotionally striking photo. No wonder it went viral………
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I remember that issue. Her expression stayed with us.
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Such a striking emotional photo. No wonder it went viral………
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every photographer must dream of shooting an iconic image like that; it is still striking today —
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No wonder it went viral. Drags on your emotions…….like good poetry does/should……..
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Haunting…
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Haunting indeed……..
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