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Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar , appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic .
Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله; born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the 12-year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic.
Farzana Wahidy (born 1984) is an Afghan documentary photographer and photojournalist.She has made photographs of women and girls in Afghanistan. She was the first female photographer in Afghanistan to work with international media agencies such as the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
As a small crowd gathers around the box camera, images of beauty and of hardship ripple to life from its dark interior: a family enjoying an outing in a swan boat on a lake; child laborers toiling ...
With the new film Bread and Roses streaming now on Apple TV+, Lawrence, 34, and Yousafzai, 27, turned the camera over to Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani to collect footage of women Mani knew in ...
Afghan women's activists and human rights experts are calling the situation in Afghanistan a gender apartheid. In this documentary, I don’t think the history and background [surrounding the fall ...
This is a list of women artists who were born in Afghanistan, of Afghani descent, or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
She sought out a female Afghan filmmaker to document the lives of women as they attempted to resist a return to life under an oppressive rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law.