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By Carolyn Drake, from ‘Two Rivers’

The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers stretch from the western edge of China across Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, spanning a distance of 2,500km. They are the lifeblood of the vast, landlocked region between China, Russia, Iran and Afghanistan. The Greeks knew the two rivers as the Oxus and the Jaxartes. An islamic hadith holds that they are two of the four rivers that flow into Paradise. The Silk Route linking China to Europe followed the paths of the rivers.

After the Soviet government took control of the region in 1917, it began one of the most ambitious engineering projects in world history, diverting massive quantities of water from the rivers to bring cotton production to an area too arid to sustain such a thirsty crop. Such large quantities of water were diverted that the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest lake, began to disappear. When Moscow’s rule ended in 1991, five new Central Asian nations appeared, burdened with failing economies, incongruous borders, and a growing environmental crisis. The Aral Sea has nearly vanished, replaced by salt and dust storms.

Two Rivers follows the rivers from their endpoints to the source. It is a photographic record of a place where political allegiances, ethnic bonds, national borders, and physical geography are in constant flux; a vast ecosystem where nature, money, and history are intertwined.

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Soviet Tajikistan, photo by Georgy Zelma

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Hazor Chashma Lake - Tajikistan (by Teseum) 

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“At the Foot of the Sun”, book about Tajikistan (1964)

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Pamiri wedding photographed by Evgeni Zotov

Pamiri wedding lasts two days. First day families of groom and bride celebrate separately in their homes.

Roshorv village in Bartang Valley, Tajikistan

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„Dear heart, why are you so selfish?

Why do you love the enemy in vain?

Why do you seek faith from the unfaithful?

Why do you strike iron that is cold?

And you, whose cheeks are like the lily,

The lily is jealous of your beauty.

Go down this dead-end street just once,

You'll light a fire under its residents.

My heart is a grain, your love, a mountain.

Why crush the grain under the mountain?

Forgive me, dear boy, forgive me.

Don't needlessly kill a lover like me.

Come now, take a look at Rudaki,

If you want to see a lifeless body walk.“

- Rudaki

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Tajikistan

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Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2018

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Dushanbe, Tayikistan, 2017

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Dushanbe, Tayikistan, 2017

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Suzanis; a type of textile made mostly in Tajikistan, and parts of Uzbekistan such as Bukhara & Samarkand. 

‘Suzani’ name of the exquisite silk mural embroideries comes from Persian “sozan” which means “a needle”. The art of making such textiles in Iran is also called ‘Suzandozi’ (needlework). Tajik & Uzbek Silk Handmade Suzanis gives people an insight into the old culture and tradition of the Khorasani land. Such works of art were prepared and used for ceremonial events like wedding, fittings for horses and horsemen, and the general embellishment of reception areas. Traditionally this embroidery work began at the birth of a daughter and continued, with the help of family and friends, until the bride’s dowry was complete. The patterns of Suzanis are an expression of women’s mood and fantasies; and not only that…Most of all, Suzanis are the last exponents of an age-old tradition.

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A visit to the glaciers on top of the Hisor Mountain Range

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Zerafshan, Tajikistan | by Eric Hugland

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Iskanderkul, Tajikistan | by Oleg Brovko

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Mountains Solve Existential Problems

The Story of a Tajikistan Adventure

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From the Towers of Dushanbe

Three weeks into my project photographing Dushanbe’s Soviet architecture, I picked a favorite building.