31st December 2012 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Amid the Winter’s Snow
On the day of the first heavy snow in Tashkent, I went out to the former Abdul Kassim Medressah, which now houses artisans’ workshops and shops selling craft work from around Uzbekistan. The city looks very different under a fresh coating of snow. The Medressah is an attractively simple building from the early nineteenth century. […]