Photo Credit: 
Suzanne Plunkett
 
Photo Caption:
Spending the Eid holiday relaxing, Bibi Haji, 9, left, and her friend Sabna, 10, swing on a homemade swing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2003.
 
Photographer's Note: 
“There are justified fears that the freedom of Afghan women could be eroded with the Taliban in power. It breaks my heart thinking back to 2002 when I photographed the first day school for Afghan schoolgirls at the Mir Ahmad Shahid Primary School in Kabul. I wonder where these women are today and if they are safe?
 
Afghanistan is such a beautiful country, and at the time I visited, was so full of hope. I tried to show this in the subjects that I photographed, rather than the photos of war that had been so abundant previously.”