Yang Chen's 'Where the Wind Rests' Captures Pamir's Tajik Communities

Shanghai-based photographer Yang Chen's project 'Where the Wind Rests' documents the Tajik communities of the Pamir Plateau, blending documentary and poetic approaches. The work eschews linear narrative, presenting fragments of everyday life—women in traditional dress, families before decorated doors, a man asleep on a motorcycle under barbed wire. Chen, who works across fashion, documentary, and fine art photography, focuses on ordinary gestures and the silent bond between people and their austere landscape. The project is described as existing on the threshold between interior and exterior, presence and landscape, the visible and the perceptible.