Ruins of the Kengir Gulag, site of the intensly violent repression of the largest prisoner uprising in Soviet history and today a hotspot for recruiting to ISIS.

Father of an ISIS volunteer who traveled to Turkey to intercept his son before he could join the conflict.

Residents gather for afternoon prayers in a mining community torn between the first ISIS recruits in the country and ordinary workers who stayed behind.

Once a model Soviet village, Rudnyk was demolished house by house by the national ore mining company to strip mine the scant resources that remained underneath.

A sound engineer from Not in Our Name captures ambient noise in the former city center at -28 C.

A stop along the Andijon - Tashkent highway during fieldwork.

A remote mountain village above the Fergana Valley.

The bustling city market in isolated city that became one of the most significant per capita hotspots for recruiting foreign fightters to the Syrian conflict in the world.

National park high above Bishkek.