ジョン・スタンメイヤーのインスタグラム(johnstanmeyer) - 12月29日 16時18分

No journey ever taken is like the @OutofEdenWalk, Paul Salopek’s 12 year walk in the footsteps of our ancestors, a long term project I have been working on with Paul and National Geographic for nearly five years.
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Group selfie inside the Djuma (Friday) mosque, with bride, Ana khan Daudova, and groom, Atabay Atabayev, posing for their photographer in the old 13th century city along the Silk Road in Khiva, Uzbekistan.
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Have seen many a strange moment. That late morning in the old city of Khiva, we strolled its maze of alleys lined with trinket shops. There were few others, an overcast day. Becoming a touch board, I couldn’t resist picking up more than one wooly chugirma hat, stuck carrying them as if a tourist on tour in Uzbekistan. Becoming challenged by the austere beauty of the Old City in conflict with lack of people, by early afternoon we came upon hope. It was, I believe, a Saturday, a time when young newlyweds arrive, strolling in full regalia, a personal photographer in tow, having their pictures taken...everywhere. The bride, Ana, was kind in allowing us to follow them and their entourage on the photo pilgrimage, each stop choreographed the same by every new nuptial. When we entered into ornately carved pillars that ran row upon row within Djuma mosque, Ana and Atabay’s photographer went wildly photographing portraits, kindly allowing me to share the space for this National Geographic story. After countless poses, their friends decided they all wanted a selfie with the couple. Simultaneously. It is during such strange moments that the stars align, making what otherwise was a day of photographic restlessness and hat buying, becoming the gift of strangeness, opening the doors within history of the past, colliding with the anthropology of today...our love affair with selfies.
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This photograph never made it into the magazine but you can see the final edition in this months issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック, The New Silk Road, our overland journey through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan photographed throughout 2016 and early 2017. Link to the entire story in my Instagram Bio.
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