Tag: Photo of the day
Novastan photo contest 2024 #3
“In a micro district of Bishkek, a little girl plays at flying in front of the scenery of a bygone era”. Credits : Marylise Vigneau (@marylisevigneau, France) Find… [...]
Novastan photo contest 2024 #2
‘The fields around Kyzart, in Kyrgyzstan, offer a bucolic setting where children play in perfect harmony with nature. The boys, who ride with the ease and abandon that comes from… [...]
Novastan photo contest 2024 #1
‘In the semi-abandoned sanatorium of Jeti Ögüz, I wandered among ruined Soviet structures, slowly being reclaimed by nature. The place seemed forgotten until I came across a small teahouse with… [...]
Flight over Almaty
A plane appears to be flying over the Hotel Kazakhstan in Almaty. This building, built in 1977 and capable of withstanding an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter… [...]
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Lake Song-Köl
In Kyrgyzstan, Mambeth, a young shepherd, watches the herds graze in the distance. His yurt camp is ideally located above Lake Song-Köl on good grassland. Lake Song-Köl lies… [...]
Under the rainbow
A rainbow stretches over the mountains of the Köl-Suu yurt camp in Kyrgyzstan. In many cultures, the rainbow is interpreted as a bridge between two dimensions, terrestrial and… [...]
Bakery smoke
The smoke of a local bakery fills the air of a village deep in the Jizzakh region, Uzbekistan. This photo was taken during the filming of… [...]
Banquet table
On the table, melons, watermelons, sweets, biscuits, fried bread (boorsock), pyramids of sangza (a Uighur speciality of fried noodles) and, of course, bowls of tea. Behind the table,… [...]
Harvesting cotton
‘You can still hear the birds singing, the gentle sound of water in the stream, and sometimes the happy laughter of the women. They are pickers in the cotton fields. [...]
Chaihona Rohat
Tajik men enjoy a meal at Chaihona Rohat, an iconic teahouse on Dushanbe‘s Rudaki Avenue. A Soviet-era rendition of a traditional Tajik design, Rohat was saved from demolition… [...]