The photographs.

A bazaar stall piled high with striped watermelons and melons: dark green, golden yellow and pale with netted skins

Mud-brick walls of Ayaz-Kala crowning a bare desert hill, with more ruined walls on the slope below

Wind-rippled sand dune in the Kyzylkum desert, with sparse shrubs under a wide, cloud-streaked sky

Looking up through the bare frame of a yurt: red roof poles, a patterned canopy, tassels and hanging ornaments

The Ark of Bukhara: massive sloping brick walls with crenellated tops glowing in warm light above a wide paved square

Octagonal mausoleum at Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand: walls of blue and turquoise tile, open arches and a pale tiled dome

Bibi-Khanym, Samarkand: a ribbed turquoise dome rises over a brick portal with a geometric wooden lattice entrance

Gur-e-Amir, Timur's mausoleum in Samarkand, floodlit at night: ribbed turquoise dome, two minarets and a glowing portal

A Tashkent metro station: white arches and painted floral domes over the platform, with a train standing alongside