Beijing’s ‘beauty’ treatment seen as veiled threat in Xinjiang
A Chinese government worker in the ancient Silk Road oasis of Kashgar beckons two women to her streetside stand and logs their details (pictured) under the gaze of a surveillance […]
Desert encroaches on Uighurs in China
The Taklamakan desert in the Xinjiang province of northwest China is expanding relentlessly. Swiss photographers Stéphanie Borcard and Nicolas Métraux document the gradual disappearance of Uighur culture. Most of the […]