Photo Credit:
David Guttenfelder
 
Photo Caption: 
An Afghan boy pretends to be a burqa-covered woman, wrapping a piece of discarded mosquito netting across his face, as his friend pretends to kiss him and a man takes his evening prayers behind them in Kabul, Afghanistan March 9, 2005. Long before the rule of the Taliban it was customary for women to wear the traditional burqa in Afghanistan. Today a majority of women still wear it outside their homes and unmarried young men and women live mostly separate lives with little or no contact.
 
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."