picture worth a thousand words

My picture worth a thousand words is a picture from one of my coffee table books, National Geographic: The Photographs. It is a picture that I first remember seeing when I was about 13 years old. The girl in the photo was about my age when the photo was taken. It is an image of a war refugee from Afghanistan taken in the mid 80s. Here is the photographer's website: Steve McCurry

Here is a link on the story of when the photographer found the woman in the photo: Sharbat Gula

In 2002, NPR did a story on the photographer's search for the woman as well.