Threads Along the Silk Road

Photos by Aaron Keith

This collection of photographs was taken over a few months travelling through Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Georgia. They form a journey of documentation of the complex cultures and histories of these countries, which grew as crucial regions of influence along the silk road over many centuries, and much more recently as former members of the Soviet Union. As such, I want to present fleeting snapshots of how these vastly different periods of history and ways of life coexist in the modern day, through the lens of candid moments of the people I came across crossed  while traversing the ancient trade route from east to west.

Opening Friday April 10th

at 6 o'clock

at Caspa 

above Stonemans Bookroom

Cnr Hargraeves & Motyn Sts

Castlemaine

Hours 11 - 4 Thursday - Sunday 

from Friday April 3rd - unday April 26th 

 

 

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