Most of the photographs in this collection are from my fieldwork in Kazakhstan from 2009 to 2015. They include several images from the archives, as well as those of rural and urban life. My goal is to give a sense of the overlapping histories in Kazakhstan, where the Soviet past remains entranched in the present. Here you will find photographs of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, as well as the village of Koyan located on the test site border and where I also work.
Ethnic Kazakh women and children in a photograph likely taken at the turn of the 20th century. Date and author unknown (National Archive of Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan).
Celebrating 25 years of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Image printed in the "Socialist Karaganda" newspaper. November 18, 1945.
Painting by a local Karaganda artist. Summer 2015.
Ethnic Kazakh women and children in a photograph likely taken at the turn of the 20th century. Date and author unknown (National Archive of Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan).