Carolyn Drake Image burned into photo by an artist who sells carved gourds to tourists. His father used to carve elaborate horse saddles, but nobody does that job anymore, he said. 2013. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake Image burned into photo by an artist who sells carved gourds to tourists. His father used to carve elaborate horse saddles, but nobody does that job anymore, he said. 2013. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake “Some books about Islam discuss the meaning of dreams. It tells you about the future. I don’t read this myself, but a lot of people told me about it. If you dream about a river or a sea, it means (...)
Carolyn Drake China. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Urumqi/Karamay. 2011. "Twenty years ago it was very nice, there were a lot of springs, clean water, grasses, and a lot of trees. Now it’s all buildings, an (...)
Carolyn Drake "Its the street I was born on. It is a beautiful street. My son drew his dream." 2011. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake China. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Hotan. 2007. An infant sleeps under a veil in a quiet section of a Uyghur bazaar on the road between Yarkand and Hotan. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake "I did this without giving it much thought. Its about the power of nature and the power of destruction." Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. 2013. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake A view in the mountains. 2013. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake A recent college graduate selected a photo of men praying in a cemetery. "It reminds me to appreciate life and thank Allah for giving me a beautiful life and my family,” she said. “No matter whethe (...)
Carolyn Drake Hotan. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. 2011. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake The desert's edge in southern Xinjiang. 2009. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake Image burned into photo by an artist who sells carved gourds to tourists. His father used to carve elaborate horse saddles, but nobody does that job anymore, he said. 2013. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon A Uyghur taxi driver waits for customers in front of a kebab stall at the night market in Kashgar. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. 2008. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon Aynur (moonlight) naps in the Uyghur restaurant where she worked in Hotan before her mother asked her to quit and return to the village where she grew up. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. (...)
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon A flock of pigeons circle in the air above homes in a Uyghur farming village on the desert's edge near Hotan. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. 2008. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon A portrait of boys praying in Istanbul is displayed in the home of a wealthy Uyghur family in Yining. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. 2008. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon Mutton is sliced from the bone to make traditional dishes cooked over a fire at a Uyghur food stall at the bazaar in Hotan. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. 2007. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake A street vendor by the entrance to a highway in the Uyghur district of Urumqi. 2011. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon Uyghur laborers string electric lines across Taklamakan Desert, part of the Chinese government’s effort to develop its western frontier, a province that borders 8 countries and represents a fifth o (...)
Carolyn Drake Apartment complex built for Uyghurs displaced from their homes and businesses as the Old Town in Kashgar was torn down. 2009. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon An man whose family has been in the business of trading antiques for many generations sits in his home in the historic Old Town of Kashgar for a meal on Eid day. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, (...)
Carolyn Drake Dust inhibiting trees lining a walnut grove are chopped down to make way for a wider highway through Uyghur farming villages on the southern edge of the Taklimakan desert. 2011. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon Homes in the Old Town were built along winding alleyways. Rectangular bricks signify the road dead ends, octagon bricks mean theres an outlet. Homes were built of brick, wood and mud. Tunnels and i (...)
Carolyn Drake Uyghur disco in Hotan that has since been shut down. 2008. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Wild Pigeon Parking lot of a weekly bazaar near Kashgar. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. 2007. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake “Faithfulness. Life is only one time. Everyone has to remember their faith.” © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake China. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Yining. 2008. A portrait of a husband and wife in a Uyghur home in Yining, a sensitive border region near Kazakhstan. Most Uyghurs have been displaced from (...)
