Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) E toru tekau tau ki muri, i tangohia e Steve McCurry te pikitia tino rongonui o ngā wā katoa. Heoi, ahakoa i muri i enei wa katoa, kei te kaha tonu te hiahia o te kaitango whakaahua nui ina korero ia mo "Te kotiro Afghan". "I mohio ahau he kanohi whakamiharo tana, he titiro pakari", e mahara ana ia. "Engari he tini te tangata e karapoti ana i a mātau, e hurihuri ana te puehu, ā, i mua i ngā kāmera matihiko, ā, kāore koe i mōhio he aha te mea ka tupu ki te kiriata. "I te wa i hangaia ai e au te pikitia, i mohio ahau he mea motuhake. I whakaaturia e au ki te etita o te National Geographic, a ka peke ia ki ona waewae ka hamama, 'ko to tatou taupoki e whai ake nei.' " Ehara i te mea ko te "Afghan Girl" anake te uhi o muri o te maheni, engari ko te tino angitu i roto i tona hitori rongonui. Ko te whakaahua whakaharahara o Sharbat Gula, 12 tau te pakeke, he pani Pashtun i te puni rerenga o Nasir Bagh i te rohe o Afghanistan-Pakistan, i tangohia i te marama o Tihema 1984 ka whakaputaina i te tau e whai ake nei. Ko te wahine, kei te wha tekau nei ona tau, kua kitea tata nei e noho ana ki Pakistan. I a McCurry e whakaaro ana ki tōna rongonui, ko te mea tino whakaongaonga ki a ia ko te pānga o tēnei whakaahua kotahi ki te ao tūturu. E mea ana ia, "Na taua whakaahua i mahi ai te iwi ki nga puni rerenga". "Kei te tino whakapehapeha nga Afghans, i te mea he rawakore te kotiro engari he nui te whakapehapeha, te kaha me te whakaute i a ia ano. "I aro atu ki to rātau raruraru, ā, i whakaaweawe i te tini o te iwi". I arahina hoki e te National Geographic ki te whakatū i te Tahua Tamariki Afghan -- ā, ko te tikanga, kāore a McCurry e utua i tēnei rā e ngā kaihautū tāke Afghan. Ko te whakaahua te tino kaupapa o tētahi whakaaturanga nui o te mahi a McCurry, i whakatuwheratia tata nei ki Monza, Itari, ā, ka rere tae noa ki te 6 o Aperira. "He mea pai ki te titiro whakamuri ki aku mahi, me te kite i te āhua o ngā kaupapa me ngā hononga i puta mai. Engari kaore au i te whakaaro ki te reti, "e kii ana te 64-tau-tawhito ki a CNN mai i tana studio i New York. "He maha ngā wāhi hou me ngā kōrero hou e whakamiharo ana ki ahau. He rārangi roa ōku wāhi hei toro atu: Iran, Madagascar, Mongolia, Russia....
Ko te "Kahine Afghan" a Steve McCurry tētahi o ngā whakaahua rongonui o te ao. Kua mahi a McCurry i te nuinga o nga rohe pakanga o te ao i runga i te mahi 40 tau. Kua whakatuwheratia tētahi whakaaturanga whakamuri o tana mahi i Itari.