https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/talas · tea · film cameras Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2016/01/moving-on.html Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:30:00 +0600wordshttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2016/01/moving-on.html i don't post here much any more, it's all on Instagram now and the app is easier. but i like this little pink room on the internet. i will leave it open. thank you for the notes ♥https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/12/a-year-of-small-news.html Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:00:00 +0600lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/12/a-year-of-small-news.html sixteen months at the paper. 41 cats, dogs, bus stops, a very large pumpkin, one wedding that the groom did not attend (a long story, ask me at a bus stop). my name is on 63 photographs. i used to think i'd be a reporter who writes big things. the photo editor says: "you're the one who writes the…https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/10/rain.html Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:30:00 +0600wordshttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/10/rain.html three days of rain. the whole city is a reflection. i put the camera in a plastic bag and went out and photographed the puddles at night, with the trolleys passing through them like ships. on the way home an old man asked what i was doing. i said "photographing the water". he looked at the puddle…https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/08/on-the-road-to-iyik-janyl.html Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:40:00 +0600photoshttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/08/on-the-road-to-iyik-janyl.html went on the weekend with my cousin and her husband, who drove. five hours with three stops. at the second stop an old woman gave us an apricot each and wouldn't take money. "you're too thin," she said, to me. i told her it was the camera that made me look thin. she said: "it's a lie."https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/06/the-projection-booth.html Sun, 07 Jun 2015 21:30:00 +0600photoshttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/06/the-projection-booth.html the paper sent me with daniyar osmonov, who wrote the long story about the projectionist (his blog is Long Way Round, here on kündölük). he writes slowly and he is very polite. he asked mr mamatov if i could take a photograph from the corner of the booth where the light from the window falls on…https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/04/dust.html Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:10:00 +0600wordshttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/04/dust.html this week the wind brought dust from the steppe and all of talas turned the colour of tea with milk. the cars, the tulips, the sheets on the balconies. the sun was a coin behind frosted glass. i photographed my grandmother's washing line. every sheet was a different shade of beige. "now i have to…https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/04/river.html Sun, 05 Apr 2015 18:00:00 +0600photoshttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/04/river.html https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/02/fourteenth-of-february.html Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:50:00 +0600photoshttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2015/02/fourteenth-of-february.html the girls at the paper say the day is "for those who have somebody". i said: i have a camera. they laughed. then the photo editor said: "that's the correct answer".https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2014/11/the-cat-on-the-roof-printed.html Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:15:00 +0600lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2014/11/the-cat-on-the-roof-printed.html my first small news item with my name under it, a cat on a roof on the street behind the market. the cat's name is Sultan and he belongs to nobody. the neighbours bring him sausage and fight about who he likes more. the paper printed it on page 7 next to an ad for winter boots. i bought three…https://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2014/09/first-day-at-the-paper.html Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:30:00 +0600lifehttps://blog.attelkom.net/nazira/2014/09/first-day-at-the-paper.html the photo editor is a woman with grey hair who looks at my prints for four seconds and says "again". that's the training programme. first assignment: a new bus stop on the avenue. one photograph. "make it look like it matters", she said. i went back three times. on the third, a man in a green cap…