Who is Sharbat Gula?
Famously known as the "Afghan Girl", Sharbat Gula's portrait was taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry in 1984. Gula was then 11 years old, living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Today Gula lives in a small village in Afghanistan with her husband and three children. Read her story here.
Why does she inspire us?
Have you ever seen eyes like that? They are 'haunted and haunting.' They disturb us, they move us, they fill us with wonder. If eyes are windows to the soul, then hers is one full of fierce, heartbreaking beauty.
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