--- title: The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake description: For her new book, Carolyn Drake spent five years and 15 trips roaming the expanse of Central Asia, documenting the hardy people of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan who survived on the fringes of empires Russian and Chinese. canonical: https://time.com/3800860/the-surreal-world-of-central-asia-two-rivers-by-carolyn-drake/ author: Hannah Beech article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-07-10T08:00:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:40:44.568Z article:section: World og:title: The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake og:description: For her new book, Carolyn Drake spent five years and 15 trips roaming the expanse of Central Asia, documenting the hardy people of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan who survived on the fringes of empires Russian and Chinese. og:url: https://time.com/3800860/the-surreal-world-of-central-asia-two-rivers-by-carolyn-drake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98318b28345a44b7/6987a6322dce0146e19e056d/kyrgyzstan25.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Villagers along a canal near the border between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake twitter:description: For her new book, Carolyn Drake spent five years and 15 trips roaming the expanse of Central Asia, documenting the hardy people of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan who survived on the fringes of empires Russian and Chinese. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98318b28345a44b7/6987a6322dce0146e19e056d/kyrgyzstan25.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake > Sponsored content. 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Karasu, Kyrgyzstan A border town in the Fergana Valley. Karasu, KyrgyzstanCarolyn Drake—Panos by [Hannah Beech](https://time.com/author/hannah-beech/) ## Hannah Beech Jul 10, 2013 8:00 AM UTC The land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, the rivers the ancient Greeks knew as the Oxus and Jaxartes, serves for many of us as the ultimate flyover territory as we jet from Europe to Asia and beyond. Carolyn Drake, an American photographer who has worked for TIME, the _New Yorker_ and _National Geographic_, spent five years and 15 trips roaming this expanse of Central Asia, documenting a hardy people who survived on the fringes of empires Russian and Chinese. From her travels to places with Tolkien-esque names—Osh, Termez, Kokand—comes a photography book called _Two Rivers_. It is a surreal and improbably luminous work, leavened by the kind of humor that flourishes in the harshest of places. The land between the two rivers once supported fishing ports and fertile farms. But the ecological aggression of the Soviets, not to mention the toll of global warming, has robbed the region of liquid and life. Boats are now marooned on earth, livestock parched. Always there is dust. Raised in coastal cities and most comfortable when the horizon ends in a confluence of sea and sky, I find the aridness unsettling. Yet Carolyn captures the counterpoints to the landlocked breadth: a dirty puddle, a rush of irrigation water, a murky pool embellished with Olympic iconography. If the Inuits, perhaps apocryphally, have dozens of words for snow, surely the peoples of Central Asia living in present-day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan must know how to distinguish between so many shades of brown: the salt flats of what once was the Aral Sea; the rusting machinery of the Soviet planned economy; the matted wool of a dirty sheep; all those deserts with all that sand; the stalks of cotton plants that suck up scarce water; the nuts and flatbread Central Asians offer up with their boisterous hospitality. Yet even in this sere landscape, Carolyn displays an appetite for color that’s bold, maybe even defiant. There is the exuberant overlay of patterns that Central Asian women assemble as they dress each morning. We are treated to turquoise doorframes, the plumage of a freshly killed duck on white tiling and the burnt umber of an aged Moskvitch car from which a sad-eyed man stares out. Gaudy packages are used to smuggle heroin. Near the source of the two rivers, Carolyn gives us the frozen white of the Tianshan Mountains—I wonder what word the Inuits have for this particular manner of snow? And there is, of course, the visual assault of the monuments to ego built by post-Soviet dictators, whose love of gilt, marble and ever-flowing fountains underlines the paucity of the surrounding land. One afternoon in mid-2011, when Carolyn and I were working together on a story in far western Kazakhstan, we wandered behind an oil refinery on the outskirts of Atyrau. A network of run-off canals extended into the desert, the water startlingly limpid despite the unseen chemicals. Ethnic Russians,with limp, sandy hair and sunbaked torsos, lounged among the cattails, drinking vodka and fishing for the kind of small, hardy creatures that seem to thrive amid pollution. The placid scene I replay in my mind recalls the best qualities of Carolyn’s photographs: strange, even toxic oases in which people find pleasure because what else is there to do but celebrate what little the land has given them? --- [**_Carolyn Drake_**](http://carolyndrake.com/) _began photographing_ [Two Rivers](http://www.carolyndrake.com/) _in 2007, traveling frequently from her base in Istanbul. The work was funded in part by a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a finalist for the Santa Fe Prize._ _With text by Elif Batuman, the book was self-published in June 2013\._ **_Hannah Beech_** _is TIME’s China bureau chief and East Asia correspondent._ ---  The following photographs were taken in 2007 - 2011\. A preserved Aral Sea bream on view at a permanent exhibition in the History Museum in Aralsk as a memorial to the life that once thrived in and around the Aral Sea. Aralsk, Kazakhstan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A wild goose on view at the Aralsk History Museum. Aralsk, Kazakhstan Carolyn Drake—Panos  Rusting fishing boats at a former fishing port on the Aral Sea. Moynaq, Uzbekistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A Soviet era swimming pool in Mary. Irrigation projects during Soviet times turned this oasis city into a center for cotton production. Mary, Turkmenistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A lighting fixture in a home in Damla, a desert village where people live off rain water collected in communal ponds. Electricity comes from generators. Damla, Turkmenistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A cotton farmer in his orange Moskovich. Shege, Uzbekistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  Peeling wallpaper at an abandoned check point near the Uzbek/Turkmen border. between Dashogus and Dargan Ata, Turkmenistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  The Syr Darya, an irrigation canal, and cotton fields seen through an airplane window in spring. Tashkent, Uzbekistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A history museum is undergoing renovation.Shakhrisabz, Uzbekistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A window is open in the photographer's hotel room. Zhetisay, Kazakhstan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A man stands in a shower that sprays water from all sides. It is one of several treatments that patients go through during the course of a day at Zhetisay Sanatorium. Mineral Water, Kazakhstan Carolyn Drake—Panos  Bullet holes and stars are lit at night in Damla, a desert village whose name means "Drop of Water." Damla, Turkmenistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  The imprint of a swimmer on the muddy shore of the Syr Darya in summer. Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan Carolyn Drake—Panos ![A donkey brays near an irrigation canal in a cotton farming village named after the Uzbek president.

Karimov, Uzbekistan](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca75169046e8acac/6987a62fa988caf7ea6af23b/031408uz120-as-smart-object-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp) A donkey brays near an irrigation canal in a cotton farming village named after the Uzbek president. Karimov, Uzbekistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A border town in the Fergana Valley. Karasu, Kyrgyzstan Carolyn Drake—Panos  Smoke and people fill the park of Khudayar Khan’s palace to celebrate Nowruz, the new year and beginning of spring, on March 21\. Kokand, Uzbekistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  Khujand – a 2500-year-old city in the Fergana Valley – viewed through split window panes in a dilapidated hotel. Fertile, populous, diverse, and Islamic, the Fergana Valley is split between three countries, with borders determined by Soviet-era administrative lines. The Syr Darya runs through the upper left corner of the frame. Khujand, Tajikistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  An Uzbek woman poses in the courtyard of her home in the outfit her husband told her to wear in public. Banned in Soviet times, the paranja is the traditional robe worn by women in the Fergana Valley. Karasu, Kyrgyzstan Carolyn Drake—Panos  Chopping mutton, eating an apple in a samsa restaurant at the Sunday bazaar. On the right is a clay oven. Samarkand, Uzbekistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  Plates of food be served at a birthday party. Syr Darya, Uzbekistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A shaman cures a woman of fatigue. Dushanbe, Tajikistan Carolyn Drake—Panos ![Mens hour in the main pool at Garam Chashma, a mineral spring in the Tajik Pamir mountains. People soak in the spring to cure skin ailments and other illnesses.

Garam Chashma, Tajikistan](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03a29a472d46d26d/6987a6318e0601761145d1a9/071108tajikistan0633darker.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp) Mens hour in the main pool at Garam Chashma, a mineral spring in the Tajik Pamir mountains. People soak in the spring to cure skin ailments and other illnesses. Garam Chashma, Tajikistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  Late at night, a shaman called Burul performs Zhar Solu to purify the home and soul of her friend. They light candles to call the spirits. Talas, Kyrgyzstan Carolyn Drake—Panos ![A shelf of books and a framed picture displayed in a Pamiri home, high and isolated in the Tajik Pamir mountains.

Bartan, Tajikistan](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0cf473171987bf2/6987a631f887dc2b75e8ceb3/071508tajikistan0124.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp) A shelf of books and a framed picture displayed in a Pamiri home, high and isolated in the Tajik Pamir mountains. Bartan, Tajikistan Carolyn Drake—Panos  The shaman Burul lays out playing cards on her kitchen table to study her client's life. Talas, Kyrgyzstan Carolyn Drake—Panos  A shaman named Bubusade treats a young woman from her village with a massage. a village near Talas, Kyrgyzstan Carolyn Drake—Panos ![In spring, a horse grazes in a clearing where the snow has melted. These Tian Shan mountains mountains make up 80% of the country.

Suusamyr Valley, Kyrgyzstan](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22b220c90f0d8b1/69868c3413c79f522f191c67/033008kyrg0751.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp) In spring, a horse grazes in a clearing where the snow has melted. These Tian Shan mountains mountains make up 80% of the country. Suusamyr Valley, Kyrgyzstan Carolyn Drake—Panos ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3800860/the-surreal-world-of-central-asia-two-rivers-by-carolyn-drake/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3800860/the-surreal-world-of-central-asia-two-rivers-by-carolyn-drake/"},"headline":"The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake","datePublished":"2013-07-10T08:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:40:44.568Z","description":"For her new book, Carolyn Drake spent five years and 15 trips roaming the expanse of Central Asia, documenting the hardy people of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan who survived on the fringes of empires Russian and Chinese.","url":"https://time.com/3800860/the-surreal-world-of-central-asia-two-rivers-by-carolyn-drake/","keywords":["LightBox","Kazakhstan","Soviet Union","Out There"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98318b28345a44b7/6987a6322dce0146e19e056d/kyrgyzstan25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Hannah Beech","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/hannah-beech/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt98318b28345a44b7/6987a6322dce0146e19e056d/kyrgyzstan25.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Villagers along a canal near the border between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.","caption":"Villagers along a canal near the border between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.","creditText":"Carolyn Drake—Panos","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3800860/the-surreal-world-of-central-asia-two-rivers-by-carolyn-drake/","name":"The Surreal World of Central Asia: Two Rivers by Carolyn Drake"}}]}] ```