1. Sharbat Gula
    This is a photograph of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan woman born in 1972. She was the subject of a famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry at an informal school within a refugee camp. She was approximately 12 at the time.
    The following year, in 1985, the photograph was printed on the cover of the National Geographic magazine. Her identity was only discovered in 2002. She became known as "The Afghan Mona Lisa,” in reference to Leonardo da Vinci’s painting.
    Soldier and young woman kissing in Times Square
    Malnourished baby being stalked by a vulture
    Omayra Sánchez
  2. Malnourished baby being stalked by a vulture
    Omayra Sánchez
    Soldier and young woman kissing in Times Square
    Malnourished baby being stalked by a vulture
    Sharbat Gula
    This is a photograph of Omayra Sánchez, a 13-year-old girl who was one of the 25 000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz volcanic eruption in Colombia, on November 14, 1985. Omayra had been trapped in water and concrete for three days when the picture was taken by photographer Frank Fournier. Its worldwide publication, only a few days after she died, raised questions about the nature of the photographer's work, and caused controversy due to the Colombian government’s inaction in the midst of the tragedy.
  3. Malnourished baby being stalked by a vulture
    Sharbat Gula
    Omayra Sánchez
    Soldier and young woman kissing in Times Square
    Malnourished baby being stalked by a vulture
    This photo, taken in 1993 during the Sudan famine, was the winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. The picture depicts a famine-stricken child crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located not too far away. It looks like the vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him.
    This picture shocked the whole world. You may think that the child in the photograph did not survive this event, but he did in fact live through the Sudan famine. However, he died from complications of malaria 14 years later.
  4. Soldier and young woman kissing in Times Square
    This photograph is entitled V-J Day in Times Square. It was taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt and shows an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on “Victory over Japan Day” (V-J Day) in Times Square, New York City, on August 14, 1945.
    The photographer did not have the chance to get the names of the woman or the man because he was moving and photographing fast during the celebrations. Only the woman in the image has since been officially identified as Edith Shain.