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Kashgar, China 2003 Uyghur families travel to the market in Kashgar. I was shooting film (slides) and took very few shots. Luckily some are good enough. If I had used digital, I’d have had hundreds of shots but still this … Continue reading
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Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China 2003 Uighur men take the opportunity to get their faces and heads shaved at the Kashgar Sunday Market. Every hair was shaved down to the skin except the luxuriant flowing mustaches.
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Kashgar, China 2003 Women weave silk carpets in a workshop in Kashgar. Their knots were fine and tight. The carpets felt like the fur pelt of an animal.
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Kashgar, Xinjiang Provence, China 2003 This reminds me of an ancestor painting. Those are formal poses and this one is rather quotidian, but this Uighur man has gravitas as they say now in political circles. He sits in an outdoor … Continue reading
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Xinjiang China 2003 Hundreds of sewing machines filled the huge room. Hundreds of young women bent to their task: pushing miles of bright-colored fabric under the needle. I wanted a photograph, but the forelady shook her finger at me. Undeterred, … Continue reading
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Kashgar, China 2003 Animals behave as we do in many ways. They form cliques, a pecking order, and the low man in the herd has a miserable time of it. At feeding time, the outcast must gobble his food because … Continue reading
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Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China 2003 A Uyghur farrier readies a supply of horseshoes. His shop was in the back streets of old Kashgar. Somnolent donkeys lined up to be shod. Donkeys are still the main transporters of goods. Many small … Continue reading
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Kashgar, Western China 2003 Young Uyghur men at work baking a bagel like bread. They use a tandoor oven as do bakers in India and Central Asia. Culture oozes across borders affecting food, clothing, crafts and just about everything. The … Continue reading
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China, Xinjiang Province 2003 At first I imagined that these young men were selling the brooms that their mothers made, but after looking at the photo I got the idea that they had purchased them from a factory of sorts. … Continue reading
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Kashgar, Xinjiang Provence, China 2003 Kashgar was a main Silk Road city and the famed Kashgar Bazaar could still impress Marco Polo with its exotic markets and people: Uigar women go about with faces obscured by a knitted head covering. Now … Continue reading
