Essay by Patrick Pittman, Studio D travel grant winner. Read The Panj Drift.



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If you’re curious what we got up to with our little experiment of a studio, read the Studio D 2017 End of Year Report.
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In the last five weeks I’ve travelled 7,000km overland through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan’s GBAO region and China’s western provinces. After a year of working flat out …
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The point where it is simply better to start over.
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The extent that you can de-code this advertisement. The extent that local Tajiks can do the same. From the local press in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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A sign-of-the-times moment from the Caravan Cafe – an upscale organic restaurant in the Tashkent suburbs: a lady walks in alone and sits at the …
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Stop for tea at a road-side restaurant – the sugar is about 9 times the volume of a ‘regular’ lump. The driver takes two, enough …
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Whilst taking breakfast in a roadside hut encounter a situation strangely reminiscent of this – where a local kid takes my phone, switches on Bluetooth …
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Stop for tea at a road-side restaurant – the sugar is about 9 times the volume of a ‘regular’ lump. The driver takes two, enough …
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