Description: An unforgettable portrait of the Uyghurs and of the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar before the Chinese government's crackdown.
Brief description: Kevin Bubriski is a documentary photographer whose photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, among others. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts, and Robert Gardner Peabody Museum Fellowships. Bubriski's other books include Portrait of Nepal (1993), Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero (2002), Nepal 1975-2011 (2014), Legacy in Stone: Syria before War (2018), Our Voices, Our Streets: American Protests 2001-2011 (2020), and Nepal Earthquake (2022). His Website is kevinbubriski.com.
Review Quotes: "Bubriski depicts Kashgari life on a small scale: the quotidian moments of friends gathered on the street, children playing, street food being cooked. It's mostly about a city seen through the lives of its people [...] If seen without context, there's nothing remarkable about Bubriski's photos. They show regular people going about their everyday lives. But they're extraordinary precisely because they give us a glimpse, without any editorial judgement, filter or beautification, of people's old lives in Kashgar. They have become remarkable because these lives are no longer allowed to be lived in the same way."--The Mekong Review