A delegation of priests from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church visit the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Russia (photographer unknown, source)

The Ark fortress of Bukhara, Uzbekistan by Hassan Kurbanbaev (source)

3rd March 2024: Divine Liturgy at the Moscow Theological Academy, Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Russia (photographer unknown, source)

Kourpashas, traditional Uzbek carpets, which adorn the homes of every household, dry in the sun in Moynaq, Karakalpakstan, western Uzbekistan.

By Timur Karpov (source)

Believers in an Orthodox church in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, by Theodore Kaye (source)

A building-size portrait of Tajik president Emomali Rahmon is dwarfed by a Soviet-era statue of Lenin in the eastern outpost of Murghab in Tajikistan

By Theodore Kaye (source)

Kheleturi, Botlikhsky District, Dagestan, Russia, 2021 Screenshots from a video by Mariat Abdulkhamidova (source)

The village of Farish in the Jizzak region of Uzbekistan is a somewhat magical place, where an Eiffel Tower (“Farish” sounds almost like “Paris” in Uzbek and Russian) greets you at the entrance. It is a place where people build their own world that is not seen from outside. My project is the story of a large community of seasonal agricultural workers. For eight months a year, they live on the land of others with their whole families, build houses, work with their hands, grow tomatoes, melons, and watermelons, raise their children, and watch Turkish TV series in the evenings. And then, for the winter, they go to their home in the east, to the Fergana Valley. 

Another Paris: Life and Work in Farish, Uzbekistan by Kamila Rustambekova

Ira Rybakova (source)

Martqopi monastery, Georgia, by 112830mf (source)

A winter morning at the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Russia, by 112830mf (source)

Georgia on film by 112830mf (source)

Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Russia, by Olivier Duport (source)

From Uzbek Blaze by Hassan Kurbanbaev (source)

From Uzbek Blaze by Hassan Kurbanbaev (source)

Daily life in Tashkent’s eski shahar (Old Town) on the brink of its demolition (photographer unknown, source)

The Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Viktor Balaguer (source)