william daniels – faded tulips

William Daniels – Faded Tulips

William Daniels Faded Tulips ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT I remember seeing images of Kyrgyzstan for the first time on television, in March 2005. There were scenes of excited Asian-looking men r…

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Since late 2007 I have traveled several times to Kyrgyzstan to work on an ongoing project entitled Faded Tulips, a long term social portrait of the former Soviet republic, two decades after its independence, undermined by poverty, corruption and chronic political instability: an explosive mixture.