"Afghan Girl"

"Afghan Girl" By Steve McCurry, 1984 / Nikon Fm2
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula also known as Sharbat Bibi, taken by photojournalist Steve McCurry. It appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of a teenage girl looking deeply into the camera. The identity of the photo's subject was not initially known, but in early 2002, she was identified as Sharbat Gula. She was a Pashtun child who was living in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed.

It has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa and has been called "the First World's Third World Mona Lisa". The image became "symbolic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp".