Project Detail: A Shaded Path

Contest:

Emerging photographers 2017



Brand:

LuganoPhotoDays



Author:

Elliott Verdier

Status:
Finalist

 

Project Info

A Shaded Path

Four months in Kyrgyzstan, portraying this country on the outskirts of global headlines with a large format camera, through faces and landscapes. This work highlights the generational disparities between those nostalgic of an abolished USSR order and modern westernized youths born after the fall. It covers the trials of a young, woebegone country struggling to simultaneously form a national identity and keep apace with a global economy. Relics of a past era mingle with the faces of a population frozen in transition.

Photos

An abandoned trailer, in the frost of Mailuu Suu.

Mark, 16, works as an intern at the new televised music channel « Tigiboo ».

A river near Bishkek. It is very cold: -18°C [-1°F]. Kyrgyzstan is farther from the sea than any o

A hunter in Min Kush, in the Jumgal District of Naryn.

A house of Min Kush. We can still see how painted it was before, as a clue of its past abundance.

Ayim, 24, studies fashion design in Bishkek. She dreams about working in Paris, France some day.

A coal miner at work in Min Kush. The city was known for its uranium, but there are also important c

Min Kush was a city built by the USSR in 1953 to collect local uranium. It was protected by check po

The elder of Min Kush, ninety four years old.

The Muslim cemetery of Min Kush. Nuclear waste is buried in the flat part of the valley, another ves