Afghan Girl From Famous Cover Portrait Is Evacuated to Italy

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15. If you read this follow-up story, you'll not see pics of Sharbat Gula the same.

At least, that was my experience.

You'll Never See the Iconic Photo of the 'Afghan Girl' the Same Way Again

https://thewire.in/media/afghan-girl-steve-mccurry-national-geographic

When Sharbat Gula finally saw the cover that would make her face world-famous, she felt, she later said, “nervous and very sad”.

When the photograph was first published in 1985 and the magazine circulated to millions of readers worldwide, it had only one sentence about her (besides the original caption, ‘Haunted eyes tell of an Afghan refugee’s fears’). It said her eyes were “reflecting the fear of war”.

This is false, Northrup says. The fear in her eyes is that of a student interrupted at school by a male stranger invading her space, her personal boundaries and her culture and leaving without even having learned her name.