Award winning photographer and who is also known as “most
iconic voices in contemporary photography” (stevemccurry.com) first started off
working for a local newspaper after studying film at a university in
Pennsylvania. After many years of work McCurry drifts into free lance
photography, where he begins his travels through India to Pakistan. Whilst
McCurry travelled through Pakistan he crossed ways with a group of refugees who
smuggled McCurry into the country of Afghanistan. McCurry then brought to
everyone the images of the ‘Afghan girl’; these images were taken by McCurry
were the first to come that exposed the outskirts of the true conflicts of Afghanistan.
The vibrant use of high definition colours in these images
lures you deep into the soul of the Afghan girls; the image is almost like she
is speaking to you; just from the ways eyes peer straight into the lenses. This
image also helps bring your attention to the real people of Afghanistan and not
what the media wants us to see.
After seventeen year Steve McCurry decided to take a trip
back and find the Afghan girl, after extensive search, McCurry found the Afghan
girl. At the age of 30 Sharbat Gula was found in her native country in 2007 and
this was also the time when Gula first saw the image of herself as the ‘Afghan
Girl’.
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