The June 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine made the "Afghan Girl" world famous. Cover photograph by Steve McCurry, Nat Geo Image Collection Sharbat Gula, known to much of the world simply ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender ...

She became known around National Geographic as the “Afghan girl,” and for 17 years no one knew her name. Photograph by Steve McCurry In January a team from National Geographic Television ...

A child bride in Yemen. The confident, direct gaze of a nine-year-old transgender girl from Kansas City, Missouri. You may have a different list of National Geographic photos that spoke most ...

When National Geographic Explorer Johan Reinhard encountered ... Photograph by STEPHEN ALVAREZ, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION Oscar Nilsson knows the girl’s skull well: He spent months with a replica ...

WOMEN: The National Geographic Image Collection reflects women ... about 35 percent of the participants were girls. Gender balance matters, she says, because women bring fresh perspectives ...

An intimate portrait of a Vietnamese woman sitting next to her great-granddaughter in a dark, smoky room as she works on some ...

At nine, a girl in Kenya already knows that her parents ... To get kids’ perspectives, National Geographic fanned out into 80 homes over four continents. From the slums of Rio de Janeiro to ...