About the Images of Central Asia blog



Toktogul reservoir

Chai in Kochkor-Ata, Kyrgyzstan

The Images of Central Asia blog is an invitation to travel through the landscape of past and present Central Asia. The journey does not start at any particular point, nor does it have a final destination. It is meant to be the appreciation of Central Asia’s past and present through its images and historical travel and exploration literature.

Since the blog presents historic travel literature, most posts are concerned with Central Asian history. Their illustration with present-day photographs is to suggest neither that time stopped nor that little has changes. This juxtaposition of literary and photographic images is simply an approach to getting to know Central Asia a little bit more.  These are just images of past and present.




E010, Kyrgyzstan

‘Once you have become the companion of the road, it calls you and calls you again. (Stephen Graham,1916, Through Russian Central Asia, p.1)