The cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic featured this picture of an Afghan girl taken at a Pakistani refugee camp. The 12 year old had been orphaned after the Russians had invaded her homeland in 1984, killing both her parents. Journalist Steve McCurry was covering the war torn area for the magazine, and he would eventually photograph the girl who would become known around the world as simply the Afghan Girl.
Sharbat Gula is pictured in 2002 after Steve McCurry returned to Afghanistan and successfully located the then 29 year old mother of three and her family. Up until that time, neither Gula nor her husband had ever heard of or seen the 1985 photograph.
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