Living in Kazakhstan for more than three years, photojournalist Frédéric Noy documented the culture and atmosphere of a turbulent country working to define itself in the shadow of the Soviet Union
Shaped in the crucible of central Asia, Kazakhstan, the largest landlocked country in the world, remains for most foreigners a huge void on the map, somewhere between Russia and China. With a surface area five times the size of France, it has long sailed along with history and the great empires.
A landowner, his son and his brother leave the vast plain surrounding Tarraz, where kokpar – an ancient equestrian game – was organised. In a trailer attached to the landowner’s old Lada stand his two horses with their heads covered to protect them from the biting evening wind on their way back
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