Since my research examines urban transformation throughout Bishkek, I’ve spent a good deal of time traveling around the…
# Kyrgyzstan
Remember that beautiful 1960s FED-3 rangefinder I showed you last week? Well, I just developed the first roll…
Earlier this week, I picked up my first Soviet film camera: a beautiful FED-3B (that’s ФЭД-3Б for the…
Yesterday, FIFA’s unabashedly avaricious president Sepp Blatter sent a congratulatory note to Bishkek-based soccer football club FC Dordoi…
Science dictates that winter begins at the winter solstice – usually December 21st or 22nd. Bishkek’s municipal government,…
Occupying a vast swath of land just north of downtown Bishkek, the Dordoy Bazaar is the largest public…
For fans of brutalist architecture, socialist-realist art, monumental statues of Soviet statesmen and war heroes, and oddly placed…
In the fall of each year, thousands of Kyrgyz Muslims congregate in Bishkek’s Old Square (ironically, in the…