Afghan Girl

Latest News Update About Afghan Girl:The image of a nameless green-eyed “Afghan girl” Made in Philadelphia born American photographer Steve McCurry documentary fame after it was published on the cover of National Geographic in 1985. This image is one of the most famous in the world to put human face of brutal conflict.

After the film “Afghan Girl” was published in National Geographic, McCurry has been signed to the prestigious photo agency Magnum, and he was also awarded several times for his work. Currently, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, POS displays, “Afghan Girl,” a long and varied career McCurry.

McCurry was able to take a photo of the girl when he was driving from the border of Pakistan to Afghanistan in 1984, before the Soviet troops. The girl was near a refugee camp in Peshawar. McCurry approached her and took her picture, the first of two in her life. The second one was also taken McCurry seventeen years later in 2002 after a long search for the girl. She now lives in the mountains of Afghanistan and the mother of three children.Afghanistan in 1984, shortly before the Soviet offensive, when he arrived at a refugee camp near Peshawar.
He approached the girl, who was in a make shift school at the time, and took the photo.
It was the first photograph ever taken of her and so far only one of two: the second was taken seventeen years later in 2002 by McCurry, after a long and arduous search to find the girl, now a mother of three children who live in the mountains of Afghanistan.
“I had tried to find over 90 years,” McCurry told CNN. “Because we did not have his name, it became very difficult as you might imagine. A woman, a girl, you know it was very difficult and complicated … and almost impossible.”
Although an outpouring of public interest inspired the image since it first entered circulation, it was after 9 / 11 that McCurry made a more concerted effort to locate it.
“It was very touching to find it. We were really surprised. It was like a miracle, finding it and finally be able to help,” he said.
It remains one of the highlights of the career of photographer born in Philadelphia, documentary photography has taken in war zones like the former Yugoslavia and Lebanon and earned him numerous prestigious awards such as the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Stock reports from abroad.
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