The Afghan Girl was a photograph taken for national geographic during the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This photograph is hard to look away from, the intensity in her bright green eyes grabs you and holds you. So much raw emotion is pouring out of her eyes. Shes frightened, pissed off, curious, and caught off guard. Her emotions are pure and unmasked. I feel what she is feeling, afraid of what is to come, cautious of the danger ahead of her. The intensity I see in this, is incomparable to most other photographs as this was not set up or staged, she wasn't dressed up or wearing makeup. The photograph was reality. The reality of the emotions and feelings of the people of Afghanistan.
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