Uzbekistan
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Elyor Nematov was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan currently works as a freelance photojournalist. His works have been published in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, LE MONDE Magazine, Discovery Channel, HBO sports channel, THE DIPLOMAT etc. He has participated in many national and international photo contests, exhibitions, and film festivals around the world and has conducted documentary photography workshops in collaboration with NOOR&NIKON and OSF in the USA, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Previously, he worked as a photo editor and as a photographer and reporter for business and sports magazines in Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. His first personal project and book "Children of Bukhara" was presented in Tashkent in 2008. In 2012, Elyor received a grant from the Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project and started his project about Labour Migration From Central Asia. Yuri Kozyrev was the mentor of his project. The project was named “I AM A FOREIGNER”. In 2013 was a finalist of the Audience Engagement Grant from OSI Foundations. In 2014-2015 Getty Images Reportage Emerging Talents program member. From 2015 became a Contributor for Getty Images. In 2015 published Father Comes Tomorrow project. The second chapter of the Labour Migration From Central Asia to Russia. Recently done the project for UNwomen: – "MY NAME IS WOMAN" – gender equality and women’s right in Kyrgyzstan. Currently working on a new project in California, San Diego, and teaching course on documentary photography in collaboration with Noor&NIKON and OSF in Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.
Anarbek was only 16 y. o when he became a victim of human trafficking in Kazakstan. His parents concluded him as a dead after 7 years of search. But one day he escapes a slavery and returns home after 9 years
Based on the narratives of two books Kyrgyz Herders of Soviet Uzbekistan and Kyrgyz Funeral Laments and Lamenters. It tells the story of two custodians of Kyrgyz nomadic traditions – herders and funeral lamenters (koshokchus).
These stories are about the outstanding people of Uzbekistan, who remain unknown to most of us. Masses have benefited from their deeds, but we have never heard about them. We constantly look for these Heroes to make them visible to you. There are stories that inspire everyone to service and betterment of the society. There are examples to follow.
Today the Aral Sea has turned into the Aralkum Desert. The former Vozrozhdeniye Island floats along its sands, like a real Flying Dutchman. Abandoned and useless ship of the desert. It bears Aralsk-7 - the only ghost town in Uzbekistan. Shard of a former empire lost in the desert.
“The woman is indeed of the greater importance to the race. She has the greater burden and the greater work. Look at the vegetable and the animal worlds. The palm which carries the fruit is the tree most prized by the date grower. The Arab knows that for a long journey the mare has the longest wind. For her greater strength and fierceness, the lioness is more feared by the hunter than the lion..."
"The metal structure that protrudes into the Pacific Ocean cannot stop incoming waves. The waves keep coming, much like people coming for work or Native efforts to reach their separated relatives, receding only for a short period of time and making way for the next waves to come". Justin De Leon
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