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Sunday, June 28, 2026
Flock grazing on the banks of the Amu Darya River, Xorazm, Uzbekistan
This photograph is from the ethnographical part of Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual survey of Central Asia undertaken after imperial Russia assumed control of the region in the 1860s.
The Syr Darya River floodplain appears here as a maze of winding meanders and loops at the image’s center. The darkest areas mark dense brush along the river’s current course, filled with blue-green water, while lighter wisps of vegetation trace the swampy depressions, or sloughs, that flank it
Sheepherding along the banks of the Amu Darya River, Xorazm, Uzbekistan
This photograph comes from the ethnographic section of the Turkestan Album, a comprehensive visual record of Central Asia compiled after imperial Russia took control of the region in the 1860s.

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