Photo Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Voices On Cental Asia

New-York based photographer Nazir Abbas feels himself at home every time he travels to Pamirs. While in search of his roots, Nazir has found numerous friends, skyscraping mountains, honest hearts, and…

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10 min

The Conquest of Central Asia through the Turkestan Album

May 2, 2018

The Turkestan Album (Turkestanskii Al’bom—1871) was one of the great colonial photography projects of the 19th century. Commissioned by the first Russian governor-general of Russian Turkestan, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman,…

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5 min

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Scenes from Central Asian Migration to Russia

April 2, 2018

Between September and December 2016, photographer and reporter Iris Oppelaar followed Central Asian labor migrants from their hometowns in remote areas of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through their journeys to Russia.…

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6 min

Feminism through Pictures: How Girls of South Kyrgyzstan Fight for Women’s Rights

February 1, 2018

Since 2014, a small feminist group called “New Rhythm” has been operating in Osh. Young activists raise the issues of women’s rights and gender inequality in the southern regions of…

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Dushanbe Buses and What It Means to Live in a Capital City

January 25, 2018

Author Karolina Kluczewska Karolina Kluczewska is a Maria Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow and a PhD student at the University of St.Andrews, Scotland. She is writing about development aid in Tajikistan, looking…

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5 min

An Insight Into Soviet Archives on Islam

January 17, 2018

Russian Perspectives on Islam (islamperspectives.org) is a unique collection of materials that documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the Orthodox/secular state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies…

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8 min

Street Art as a Public Forum in Kazakhstan: Pasha Cas

January 4, 2018

If freedom of expression is a necessary component for public debates to occur and for a public sphere to function, how does the public sphere operate in societies with restricted…

Mels Akynbekov(1942-1993). Shepherds. 1984 year. Oil on canvas, 110х139 cm

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8 min

Socialist Realism in Central Asia

December 20, 2017

Central Asia was the largest Muslim-majority region to experience Soviet rule during the twentieth century, along with the North Caucasus and the Volga-Ural regions. The Soviet Union sought to modernize…

With Love from New York: Hunza Photographer Searches for Roots in the Pamirs

The Conquest of Central Asia through the Turkestan Album

Scenes from Central Asian Migration to Russia

Feminism through Pictures: How Girls of South Kyrgyzstan Fight for Women’s Rights

Dushanbe Buses and What It Means to Live in a Capital City

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