U Z B E K I S T A N
G R A P H I N G L I F E
Stories are always visualized with a humble eye and a powerful thought,
portraying the stories of the culture-filled land through my eyes.
Its when your hands shiver, your breath still, waiting to engage the lens, to graph that particular millisecond in space.
That's where you see yourself far away from the normal, you pause the time,
that's where you see yourself win.
- Self Quoted
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is a central Asian landlocked country holding a strong history on war and culture, great philosophers and scholars belong to this land which again makes the place very captive, people and their lifestyle are very much contextual, their clothing, food, architecture... people here gave their utmost respect to us.
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First contact - War Veteran
Bold looking Russian War Veteran in white clothes talking about his life, war, and his fascination over Russian women.
Young men, working in Coca-Cola, wearing red, have noon off - running down the roads with the red Russian Lada, contrastic enough to be photographed
image descriptive of the architectural detail of window and the day light entering into the Minoer masjid, Tashkent
Charvak Dam , water Moving from the lake to the dam, image captured during the morning hour, waiting for the Perfect light to fall on the landscape.
The Russian song to which we danced with the teenagers on the streets of Kazakhstan. I'm sure you would wanna dance for this on your next party
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Uzbeki men gather in the evening to play dominoes, Picture shot in Bukhara: the historic city of Uzbekistan, having great scholars like Imam Bukhari and Avicenna coming from here.
The city of Bukhara, the buildings are made of mud and mud bricks, old-styled people with signature clothes driving the old Russian cars. taking bath in the Turkish hammams and find their needs in a crowd filled marketplace having long halls and sharp circular skylights.
One day stay at a photographers place, having conversations about his life documenting the city of Bukhara for 30 years +
Samarqand: the city of beauty, the city where the kings and the royal of Timurid empire recided-registan.
the newly married couple dominates the foreground picture while the monument Registan enhances the background with a strong posture of its detailing.
Hast-imam: Located in the old town of Tashkent, is a huge Masjid complex where Jumah, the Friday prayer is performed and you would find native uzbekis here.
In Central-Asian countries like Uzbekistan,
you would find a lot of people with golden tooth. its a part of their culture, it is a symbol of wealth.
Russian and central-Asian countries were one of the first to have subways and trains, they have mastered this art. the subway stations and the trains here are naturally ventilated, yet it doesn't fail to maintain a comfortable temperature.
Old man walking us through the graveyard having graves of the men from all the religion and From all the Countries, graves of the men who died during the world war II.
