{"id":7398,"date":"2023-12-11T10:08:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:08:31","slug":"the-hidden-truth-behind-the-infamous-national-geographic-afghan-girl-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/11\/the-hidden-truth-behind-the-infamous-national-geographic-afghan-girl-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Truth Behind the Infamous National Geographic \u2018Afghan Girl\u2019 Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wrapped in a worn maroon shawl with piercing green eyes and a stare that penetrates the camera, Sharbat Gula\u2019s portrait has become an iconic photograph. Whether or not you\u2019re a regular reader of National Geographic, you\u2019ve inevitably encountered this photo captured by Steven McCurry, famously known as the \u2018Afghan Girl\u2019, on the magazine\u2019s June 1985 cover. However, astonishingly, Gula herself did not lay eyes on the photo until 17 years later.<\/p>\n<p>The photo\u2019s accompanying caption, \u201cHaunted eyes tell of an Afghan refugee\u2019s fears,\u201d widely interpreted as a symbol of Afghan refugee distress, masks the probable unease and fear Gula felt towards McCurry during the shoot.<\/p>\n<p>In a revealing 2002 interview, Gula expressed her emotions for the first time about the moment the photo was taken and disclosed that she \u201cremembers her anger\u201d. \u201cThat photo created a lot of problems for me [\u2026] I would have preferred it had never been taken\u201d says Gula. \u201cI remember that day well, that photographer who arrived at the Nasir Bagh camp school. I was a child. I didn\u2019t like photos. In Afghan culture, women do not appear in photos. But there wasn\u2019t much choice&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events Wrapped in a worn maroon shawl with piercing green eyes and a stare that penetrates the camera, Sharbat Gula\u2019s portrait has become an iconic photograph. Whether or not you\u2019re a regular reader of National Geographic, you\u2019ve inevitably encountered this photo captured by Steven McCurry, famously known as the \u2018Afghan Girl\u2019, on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7400,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/7400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}