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Cooling Down

Childs playing on Ala-Too-Square cool off on the end of a sweltering day in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Credit: Lisa Moeckel (Germany)… [...]

Tile splendour

The necropolis of Shakh-i-Zinda in Samarkand is a unique testimony to Timurid architecture and tesselation – tiles in vibrant colours intricately assembled into mosaics. Credit: Akbar Ibragimov (Uzbekistan)… [...]

Canal cruise

In any weather, kayaking or canoeing train on the Ankhor Canal in Tashkent all year round. Now in summer, groups from beginners to professional athletes can be seen in these… [...]

The bridge over the river Vakhsh

A railway bridge crosses the river Vakhsh (Tajik: wild) in the city of Sarband in Tajikistan’s Khatlon region. The city was established in the 1950s for the workers of the… [...]

Hidden Work

A hard working baker gets into the oven. The preparation of the dough starts before sunrise – only in this way thousands of loaves make it through the tandir in… [...]

Passage

Test Ride

In Uzbekistan, station masters are enthusiastic about… [...]

Not the best moment for a bike ride yet

The winter in Shymkent is slowly coming to an end, but the rental bikes in the big city in southern Kazakhstan still have to… [...]

Billard-Saloon Osh

A bit of Wild West atmosphere in Osh in Kyrgyzstan. Only here the cowboys wear Kalpak. Credit: Davide Pilloni Find… [...]

Sunday walk in Bishkek

Two women walk through snow-covered Bishkek.Credit: Justine Paci (France) Find all of our photos… [...]

A Theatre’s history

The National Drama Theatre in Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan, named after the former head of the Kyrgyz government Sultan Ibraimov since 1997, was convened in 1972. Two years later, the… [...]

Solidarity

A man protests on the streets of Almaty for the release of all political prisoners in Kazakhstan. His sign reads: We demand an end to harassment of civil society activists!… [...]