Tajikistan

President Emomali Rahmon

Made 250 images in and around the central market in Dushanbe. Downloaded the photos to a computer and formatted the card to get it ready to cover a conference. One week later I checked the folder of my market photographs.. Empty.. Ran 6 photo recovery programs on my memory card. Nothing. 

Unfortunately, after I formatted the card I shot 500 photos on top of it.. 

If you ever accidentally format or delete photos you can easily recover them. Just do not use the card after you deleted something. It doesn't matter how long you wait just as long as you don't take more photos or videos on that card. Its very easy to get the photos back.

Russian graveyard

Varzob River

Russian orthodox church in Dushanbe

Summer in Almaty

Zzzz

Uzbekistan

Amir Timur, the last great nomadic ruler, reigned modern day Central Asia and Iran from 1370 to 1405.

ATM line in Samarkand

og bridenap

Chorsu market

Samarkand

nug life

circus

Former President Islam Karimov's White House. He was the leader of Uzbekistan from 1989 until his death in 2016.

The Islam Karimov Museum at the White House.
A series of his portraits

The UK Ambassador of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, attempted a surprise visit to a modern University outside the capital of Tashkent. The following excerpt is from his book Murder in Samarkand.

" The authorities had not wanted me to visit the university [in 2003] because of its resemblance to the Marie Celeste. I was later to discover the answer to the question, where has everyone gone? They were all in the fields picking cotton.

Even the massive labour forces held on the state farms are insufficient when it comes to harvest time, so more forced labour is drafted in. Staff and students are brought in from colleges and universities, which are effectively closed for the entire autumn term. An able-bodied university or college student will expect to spend three months in the cotton fields. Older schoolchildren will do the same, and even children as young as eight might expect to spend two or three weeks in the fields. Civil servants and factory workers can also be drafted as the size of the harvest and weather conditions dictate."

Apartments with soviet architecture

taxi lot

Orthodox church during Sunday mass

Samarkand

behind the circus

Hotel Uzbekistan