{"id":48832,"date":"2022-09-26T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/sep\/26\/kazakhstan-at-a-crossroads-photo-essay"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T06:00:06","slug":"kazakhstan-at-a-crossroads-photo-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48832","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan at a crossroads \u2013 photo essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living in Kazakhstan for more than three years, photojournalist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Noy documented the culture and atmosphere of a turbulent country working to define itself in the shadow of the Soviet Union<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A landowner, his son and his brother leave the vast plain surrounding Tarraz, where kokpar \u2013 an ancient equestrian game \u2013 was organised. In a trailer attached to the landowner\u2019s old Lada stand his two horses with their heads covered to protect them from the biting evening wind on their way back<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/sep\/26\/kazakhstan-at-a-crossroads-photo-essay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in Kazakhstan for more than three years, photojournalist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Noy documented the culture and atmosphere of a turbulent country working to define itself in the shadow of the Soviet UnionShaped in the crucible of central Asia, Kazakhstan, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48857,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832\/revisions\/48857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}