Max Goldsworthy

It seems to me that the nomadic past holds a similar place in Kazakh culture as cowboys and frontiersmen do in the American West. Not only does nomadism share the romantic features of freedom, bravery, exploration and nature – nomads in Kazakhstan have the additional attraction of being once a major world power. As if painted purely to make the connection for me, here is a mural I photographed in Uralsk of a man on horseback wearing a cowboy hat and denim jacket. it is not, however, the modern…