Rafi Letzter
It was the most recognized image in the history of the magazine which captured a close-up shot of a girl in Peshawar, Pakistan in a refugee camp. The photographer who took this popular image is Steve McCurry . He has a mysterious ability to transcend boundaries of culture and language in ...
Steve McCurry is the famous photographer who took one of the most iconic pictures of all time – The Afghan girl. “I knew she had an incredible look, a penetrating gaze. But there was a crowd of people around us, the dust was swirling around, and it was before digital cameras and you...
Gareth Harris
But Hossaini — whose 2012 picture of a green-clad Afghan girl crying in horror after a suicide attack also won second prize in the spot news category of the World Press Photo awards — said the Taliban’s promises were a sham.
'Mona Lisa of Afghan war' Sharbat Bibi became famously known as the 'Afghan Girl' when National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry captured her photograph at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp situated on the edge of Peshawar in 1984 and identified her as Sharbat Gula. ...
US photographer Steve McCurry took the picture of Gula when she was a youngster, living in a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Her startling green eyes, peering out from a headscarf with a mixture of ferocity and pain, made her know internationally but her identity was only discover...
The photographer worked with French researcher Melissa Cornet, 32, to interview over 100 women and girls in seven Afghan provinces. "One of the questions we asked the women was: '"Do you have any hope that your situation can improve under the Taliban?'," said Cornet, a lawyer who lived ...
“Good Girl”; her emotions pinwheel across the pages. Back in the city, she maintains a détente with her widower father and waitresses at a jazz club while applying to art schools in London; she yearns to be a photographer in the mode of Cindy Sherman and Diane Arbus. But she can’t...
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