Photo Credit:
David Guttenfelder
 
Photo Caption: 
Afghan day laborers mix rock with sand and cement as they work on a construction site of a new high school for girls in Kabul, Afghanistan March 3, 2005.
 
Photographer's Note:
"The Promises of a War.
 
In the early years after the US-led invasion toppled the Taliban, I was photographing the ways that the post 9-11 war was transforming Afghan lives after generations of conflict.
 
I thought that the war in Afghanistan was over."