Water Stories
Portrait
AN DREI
KU DRYASHOV
Age: 46
Town and country: I live in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Who Do you live with? I live alone.
Nationality and citizenship: Ethnic Russian citizen of Uzbekistan.
Identity: What’s my identity? I don’t have an identity, I dissolve into a
background of mountains, clouds, and emptiness.
Why are you interested in water issues? Because in Central Asia water is the
chief value.
What was your most interesting or surprising experience with water? Walking
on the bottom of the dried-up Aral Sea.
What does the world think about your country? That it is somewhere near Afghanistan.
If I hadn’t been a journalist... I think of journalism simply as work, with no right
to think more than anyone else. If I didn’t take photographs, I’d draw.
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