![]() Wrapped in a tattered maroon shawl, she fixes her gaze at the camera – meeting eyes eventually with millions of people once the picture went on National Geographic‘s June 1985 cover. In the photograph, Sharbat Gula has piercing green eyes. There he took the photo of an eight-year-old student named Sharbat Gula. On one shoot, McCurry stepped into an all-girls Islamic religious school. ![]() ![]() In 1984, McCurry was based in Pakistan, employed as a photojournalist for National Geographic during the early years of the Soviet war in neighbouring Afghanistan. The video was taken down within days after McCurry’s team”publicly accused us of slander,” Northrup told The Wire. On February 27, Northrup published a video on his YouTube channel saying, “This isn’t the story I wanted to tell,” detailing the bleak reality of what McCurry had done to obtain that photograph in 1984. When he began his research, however, he realised that nothing about the photo was as it seemed – and he would never be able to look at it the same way again. This year, he decided to make a video about Steve McCurry’s iconic image of Sharbat Gula and how its colours and composition inspired millions of people, in addition to Northrup himself, to talk about the plight of refugees. ![]() ![]() New Delhi: Tony Northrup was 11 years old in 1985 when an issue of National Geographic arrived on his doorstep, with an unforgettable cover-photo of a girl with green eyes.ĭecades later, Northrup is himself a photographer and a popular photo vlogger. ![]()
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