He did go back and found her as an adult, and was able to take pictures of her grown up, along with her husband. She obviously had no idea her child’s face was iconic. It is a powerful image !
McCurry’s famous ‘Afghan girl’ portrait almost never published
Posted by Chris Roubis on 21st, Oct, 2013
Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/news/2013/10/21/alternate-image-of-afghan-girl-almost-published
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.