View Finder No.6
an astonishing portrait of Kyrgyzstan's literary son
Welcome back to View Finder an additional offering for paid subscribers of Journeys Beyond Borders where every other Monday I feature a single photograph, from somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and explain why it matters.
This week we travel to the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, via a photograph of a portrait depicting Kyrgyzstan’s best known writer Chingiz Aitmatov (1928-2008). It hangs in the excellent State History Museum in Bishkek and it is not as it first appears…
