“Bishkek”

Womena€™s trolleybus

Bishkek -  I carry with me all my things. The cabin of Women’s trolleybus is very cozy.
Sapargul Turdubekov – Bishkek Lab

Who if not we?

Bishkek -  The situation with brain drain is relevant to Kyrgyzstan. So many “gold brains” go abroad in search of a better life…But some part of young “gold” generation is still around…
Nargiz Chynalieva – Bishkek Lab

What are you taking the foto of?

Bishkek -  Lately the city resembles a big construction site.…
Tatyana Zelenskaja – Bishkek Lab

We will live here!

Bishkek -  Translation from Russian in English “We will live here!" Kyrgyzstan experienced 2 revolutions in 10 years. Negative impact on the economy. But we should develop and move in the…
Nargiz Chynalieva – Bishkek Lab

To you

Bishkek -  It is rare situation when you can find somebody writing a letter in the post office. This woman writes a letter to …
Nellya Dzhamanbaeva – Bishkek Lab

The mysterious place

Bishkek -  A roof was always a place which attracts by its mystery, by something special, being a place where one can dream. And this roof draws attention particularly as it has…
Tatyana Mihnevich – Bishkek Lab

The future locally

Bishkek -  In a livingroom of one of the Soviet flatbuildings I found this internetshop. The owner doesn\’t speak English. This boy does so he is arranging a computer and helping me…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Taxi drivers chess room

Bishkek -  On almost every street corner you can see taxi drivers playing chess or backgammon. Sometimes on improvised furniture, like here. Sometimes just squatting in a circle on the side of…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

WC

Bishkek -  This is restroom in our office. It could be used both by men and women.…
Tatyana Zelenskaja – Bishkek Lab

to bring a joy

Bishkek -  This woman sells the child’s souvenirs to earn a living.…
Tatyana Mihnevich – Bishkek Lab

The manhole

Bishkek -  Door is the manhole to the private life. Some people live like in a sewerage, their life is dark and deep. Most of old people, retired in USSR, can’t or…
Samat Mambetshaev – Bishkek Lab

The Future globally

Bishkek -  The Loft is an industrial building that is recently opened as an art gallery. It also hosts creative industries. Together with Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Jumaliev (ArtEast) we visit some…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Taxi drivers backgammon.

Bishkek -  In the side streets of Mira Prospect, the big road the taxi drivers gather and wait for clients to come. Meanwhile they play games in improvised sitting rooms.…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Two different lives

Bishkek -  Many years ago this man worked in a factory. He was an engineer and people respected him very much. Сircumstance of life has made him beggar. Now he lives on…
Raisat Musaeva – Bishkek Lab

Thousand and one things

Bishkek -  There are a lot of different things in the boots of this car. You can find and buy here all that your soul wants. Pay only 10 soms (that’s 2…
Raisat Musaeva – Bishkek Lab

The lovera€™s shelter

Bishkek -  The boy and girl are in the standing fountain. They are taking pleasure by each other, even don’t paying attention on walking people.…
Tatyana Mihnevich – Bishkek Lab

The freedom of the dog

Bishkek -  The soundscape of Bishkek is very rural despite the fact that it is a real city that does have traffic jams at rush hours. What I hear in the night…
Lino Hellings – Bishkek Lab

Super model!

Bishkek -  I: Who is this? Are you squirrel? Squirrel: Not simple squirrel, I’m squirrel – Super Model! I: O-o-o! And what is your name? Squirrel: Hidy! I:…
Raisat Musaeva – Bishkek Lab

Twisted mirror

Bishkek -  There are a lot of night clubs and casinos built in the city recently. Here is a picture of one of them.…
Tatyana Zelenskaja – Bishkek Lab

The Olympic design

Bishkek -  In Soviet period fences, facades and many other things were often decorated with different attributes.…
Tatyana Mihnevich – Bishkek Lab

The garlands

Bishkek -  Creativity is in action. Sometimes children’ socks find second application by decorating the window and cheering up the passerby.…
Tatyana Mihnevich – Bishkek Lab

The door

Bishkek -  Manhole is the door to the sewerage. The sewerage in Kyrgyzstan was constructed only during the Soviet times. There is no another sewerage in here and there is…
Samat Mambetshaev – Bishkek Lab

Still a hard worker

Bishkek -  Being a janitor is low-paid and not prestigious work... and very often in this work come a very poor or elderly people, as on welfare do not live in Kyrgyzstan…
Elena Chigibaeva – Bishkek Lab