We went to Afghanistan shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks. This photo was taken in Kandahar, a former stronghold of the Taliban. A deeply fundamentalist city, most of the women of Kandahar continued to wear the traditional Burka, which covers them from head to toe, even after the Taliban were removed from power. Women in Kandahar rarely venture outside of the home alone and the man in the photograph was obviously their chaperone for the day, he is probably a husband or brother of one of the women.