Madge McKeithen

Women in Uzbekistan

October 8, 2011

Images of women in and around Tashkent. read more

Tags: future, government, leadership, monuments, mothers, Samarqand, street scenes, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, women

Transported

September 12, 2011

A series of shots of people moving and the things that move them in Uzbekistan in September 2011 read more

July in New York, September in Tashkent

September 10, 2011

A few more things seen there and here, posted on a day that always bring firefighters to my mind … read more

Tags: contrasts, firefighters, New York, public services, September 11, street scenes, Tashkent

Uzbekistan’s 20th & a High School Friend’s Funeral

September 1, 2011

Uzbekistan, as a nation, celebrates 20 years today. Shops, walls, fences, billboards are bedecked in banners read more

Tags: change, death, freedom, friendship, funeral, independence, loss, Michael Evans, politics, September 1, Uzbekistan

Saturday Walk Home

August 20, 2011

Few people are out. It’s 2 p.m. on a Saturday in August in Tashkent during Ramadan. In six hours, there will be life on these streets. I walk home from errands and think about what we show and what we hide, how curb appeal has no meaning here. read more

Tags: daily life, gardens, pomegranate, streets

Melons

August 12, 2011

Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
And spit out the teeth.
—Charles Simic read more

Tags: food, poetry

Keeping Cool in Tashkent

August 2, 2011

When it’s 107F/42C under a cloudless sky, shade is especially sweet. On the campus of Tashkent International School, above, and along Babur Street on an early morning run. read more

Tags: outdoors