The Lost Alliance of Architect and Artist

What kind of synergy between beauty and practicality in architecture did we once have, nearly lost, and are now trying to rediscover?

Uzbek Game Dev: Difficulty Level — Hope

And will there be a project capable of making the world learn our myths, remember our names, and explore our architecture, even if only in virtual form?

Uzbekistan’s Culture and Arts: Searching for Identity Amid Realities and Challenges

We spoke with prominent figures from Uzbekistan’s cultural and artistic scene to learn their views on what is working well in the process of self-identification today, what is lacking, and what obstacles remain.

A Beautiful Shot Isn’t Enough

Uzbek Cinematographers on the State of the Industry.

You Can Leave the Mahalla, but the Mahalla Never Leaves You

And it is not easy to grasp what a mahalla is at first. Even those born here do not always find it easy to explain. It is not a neighbourhood in the usual sense, not a village, not just a collection of houses side by side. It is something more.

Faniya Dedeneva: Creativity as Salvation

Faniya Dedeneva — an artist, ceramicist, a person who was raised in an orphanage and entered university at the age of 69. Currently, Faniya Dedeneva is realizing herself not only as an artist but also as a teacher.

Shamshat Abdullaeva's boxwoods

What the leader of the Fergana school of poetry wrote about and mourned.

The Chaikhana as a Crossroads of Lives in Photo Essay by Ildar Sadykov

The Eastern bazaar has always been the center of the city’s social life. And at the heart of this interaction, its living soul, has always been the chaikhana.