Gulnara Kasmalieva (Kyrgyzstan, born 1960) & Muratbek Djumaliev
Hotel, 2006
Gulnara Kasmalieva (Kyrgyzstan, born 1960) & Muratbek Djumaliev (Kyrgyzstan, born 1965), Hotel, 2006, digital photograph, 39 x 26 in. Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2011.13.
Kasmalieva and Djumaliev’s series A New Silk Road explores the local impact of global economics. Shot along the highways and small villages connecting China through the Central Asian country Kyrgyzstan to the Western markets—one of the actual routes that still form the renowned “Silk Road”—their images capture the determination and resourcefulness of the people that live in this mountainous and impoverished region.