Who’s This Afghan Cover Girl?
Nov 15th, 2007 by Steven
This portrait of a young Afghan schoolgirl, with mesmerizing sea green eyes, appeared on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. Photographer Steve McCurry took the shot at a refugee camp in
Her photo was later selected for the magazine’s cover. She was just a face on the cover. There’s no name to the face.
Seventeen years later, McCurry joined a National Geographic Television crew on a journey through
I too was interested to know the fate of this Afghan girl as I watched the story unfolded on a Discovery Channel documentary programme. For more on this Afghan girl, read it here.