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Alex Nitzsche

Street & Documentary Photography

TAJIKISTAN

Feature project of 2012, field visit with
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

A large communist flag is hanging off the ceiling of the Tsum department complex in central Dushanbe while a man in the background speaks into his mobile phone.

A middle-aged man in a suit with a trilby and a briefcase on his lap, waiting for the bus.

A boy of roughly ten years of age is sitting on a table in the living room of his family's house in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The TV is playing and there is a large colourful poster of a waterfall in some exotic country hanging on the wall behind him.

A old woman with a Bic pen in her hand and a winter coat on is standing in the bright sun in the backyard of one of Dushanbe's communist housing complexes.

Heating pipes laid overground cover the backyard of a Dushanbe housing complex painted in turquoise.

A young boy is driving a children's bike, with his two young friends sitting in front and standing behind him on the bike. He is driving on a dirt road in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, with small garage shacks behind them.

A young boy in a track-suit looking into the camera behind laundry swinging in the fresh air.

A teenager with an axe in his hand next to a tool-shed behind one of Dushanbe's communist tenements.

A man is pushing a perambulator with a cardboard box on it along a street of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, while a woman is walking past in the background.

A man sits behind the broken glass pane of a bus stop in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

A woman in a winter coat casts a furtive look at an advertisement poster, which shows a picture of a TV set that acts as a mirror.

Man sitting on a bench at night in front of a communist housing complex in one of Dushanbe's outer districts.

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