Afghan Girl

The World's Most Famous Photograph
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait by journalist Steve McCurry which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a young woman with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. It has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa and has been called "the First World's Third World Mona Lisa". The image became "emblematic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" deserving of the compassion of the Western viewer. In early 2002 the subject of the photo was identified as Sharbat Gula an Afghan woman who was living in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed.
Next i notice her clothes and how they are ripped and she looks like she is suffering and lastly i notice the background and how there is nothing in the background so it forces you to look right into her eyes and i wonder if the black background symbolizes something black in her life. What i know about this girl is that she is an afghani refugee in a refugee camp in pakistan. She was trying to get rid of the asylum in pakistan and they gave her a hard time and sent her back to her home country, afghanistan. Recently, she had stolen or made some passports and green cards to get back into pakistan and they just figured out she did that and now there saying she could face up to 14 years in pakistani prison and have to pay up to $5,000 to the pakistani government. I Think that this is a very powerful image showing a afghanistani girl/women just trying to get freedom is is suffering to do that and the first time i saw this picture and read about this girl, I was about to cry from how powerful and sad this this image is and after you read her story you will feel sad and that is just because the power of the image and her story had just hit