TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 3月4日 03時55分

China's westernmost region of Xinjiang is an Alaska-sized territory of parched desert, snowcapped mountains and lush grasslands. It's blighted by severe poverty but is also undergoing rapid development—home, as it is, to 3,500 miles of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: a $900 billion rebooting of the ancient Silk Road through a trade and infrastructure network snaking via Central Asia to Europe and down through Africa. The photographer @patwack spent a total of two months traveling all over Xinjiang between April 2016 and May 2017 in order to document the changes engulfing the region. His focus was particularly drawn to the Uighur population, an 11 million-strong predominantly Muslim Turkic people that form a majority in Xinjiang. Many feel marginalized by Beijing’s ever more suffocating rule, agitating for greater autonomy and even independence. Local culture is distinct from the rest of China, with a mutton-heavy diet complemented by yogurt and breads, and vivid ethnic dress, which Wack managed to capture in a stunning shot of a woman leaving a train in the ancient oasis town of Kashgar. "Local Uighur women dress very colorfully but she does add quite a flamboyant tone," he says. "The shiny fabrics, the retro prints of her dress, the high heels as well as her tall and slender silhouette made her quite a unique sight." See the full photo essay on TIME.com. Photograph by @patwack

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