Trauma........re: your pic

[techniec]

i saw your pic of that afghan girl, before and after


its funny cuz, that original picture which was on the NG cover in 1985 is like, really famous in the Afghan community. Like every single afghan knows that picture, that pic opened the eyes of the west about the humanity of the soviiet invasion of afghanistan.  well, anyways, last night i was looking through that exact issue, (i have it). Then this morning, i was looking through the news paper (Toronto Star), and they had that pic that you have, of that girl and how she looks 17 years later, i was like dumbfounded, i couldnt believe what i was seeing, cuz thats such a famous pic, u know? i showed it to my parents, they were shocked, then i come onto this board and i see you have that pic too

i heard that the photographer was looking for that girl for the last 17 years.... she grew hella old, used to be beautiful, but time, and war and poverty can do some bad things......

holla back

[Big BpG]

True that, anyone who doesn't know the story about that picture is completely shut from the world... it did open our eyes too. Look at her, she looks so alone and she is also very western looking. She looks like one of US. So the picture showed us that their is human in afghans. Truly a remarkable picture and look at those eyes. Those eyes are something in themself.

-Big BpG

[Big BpG]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For nearly two decades, National Geographic (news - web sites) has been flooded with requests for information about a beautiful Afghan teen-ager with piercing green eyes whose cover image became one of its most recognized photographs.

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But the woman's identity has only just been uncovered after the National Geographic photographer who first saw her in a refugee camp in Pakistan 18 years ago, finally tracked down the woman in a remote village south of Jalalabad, Afghanistan (news - web sites).

"Every time I went there (to Afghanistan or Pakistan), I asked about her, but I never had any leads," freelance photographer Steve McCurry, who took the picture for National Geographic in 1984, told Reuters.

McCurry says hardly a day has gone by that people have not asked him about the young woman, whose name he did not take down when he took her picture for the January 1985 cover of National Geographic.

This January, he returned with a National Geographic team to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan where he took the picture and found someone who said he grew up with the woman's brother.

"The refugee camp was set to close and so I knew this was my only chance to find her," said McCurry. "I couldn't believe it when the brother finally turned up with his sister. I knew immediately it was her."

The woman, who is now about 30 years old, was identified as Sharbat Gula. She remembered McCurry taking the picture but had never seen a copy of it and was surprised and embarrassed by all the attention it attracted.

Gula got married shortly after McCurry first saw her and had four daughters, one of whom died in infancy. She was repatriated from the camp in 1992 and returned to Afghanistan with her family.

Her life had been tough in Afghanistan and McCurry said she had struggled to survive.

"What the second picture shows is that she is still alive and survived quite well in fact ... but that pain and hardship is still written in her face. It is not a face of joy," he added.

NEW PHOTOS TAKEN

A conservative Pashtun, Gula sought her husband's permission to lift her veil to show her face for the latest photographs, which appear in National Geographic's April edition.

McCurry said he saw Gula as a representative of the plight of the Afghan people, who endured an extended war with the Soviet Union and the rise and fall of the Taliban.

"She's really emblematic of the Afghan spirit," he said, adding that a education fund had been set up by National Geographic for young Afghan girls.

National Geographic used several scientific methods to ensure they had found the right woman, including iris recognition in which the colored portion of the eye is examined.

No two human irises are the same and a direct match holds a near 100 percent probability of authenticity, National Geographic said. The woman's eyes were found to be a perfect match.

[techniec]

that was a dope article, damn this shit is personal for me,
cuz i went back home and i can feel what she went through


damn

[bLaDe]

damn she has nice eyes, lol

 -{bLaDe}

[techniec]

damn she has nice eyes, lol

 -{bLaDe}

afghan girls are unfuckwita ble,  

[Sikotic™]

I knew that picture was familiar. My dad has a copy of it too.

[The Watcher]

i think she looks evil

[Suga Foot]

I knew the story behind this picture, my couisin told me the whole story behind it like 4 months ago.  It's sooo weird to see her now.