The Afghan Girl is a powerful and iconic photograph taken in 1985 by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. It depicts a young Afghan girl with piercing green eyes, wearing a traditional red scarf, and living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. The photograph has become a symbol of the struggles of the Afghan
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. While the portrait's subject initially remained unknown, she was identified by early 2002: Gula, an ethnic Pashtun from Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province, was a 12-year-old child residing in Pakistan's Nasir Bagh.