ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Some women in Tajikistan's rural areas display a particular fashion of eyebrow make up. The portrait of the two women in Dangara, a small town approx. an hour's drive from the capital Dushanbe, shows the intriguing effect this style has on facial expression. To me, the straight line of eyebrows expresses resolve, straightness, maybe even a certain stubbornness. Not sure whether these are the main characteristics I have encountered in females in Tajikistan, but it is definitely a sign of more female self-confidence in the region, as compared to Afghanistan or Pakistan.

AUTHOR
Dr. Alamir is a political scientist by education and has been working in security policy and international development contexts for more than twenty years. In the wake of numerous business and private travels to Europe, Asia and Africa, she developed a keen interest in photojournalism, people and landscape photography. Around 2010, she assumed a more ambitious approach to photography and has been working to improve by professional standards ever since. Since 2017, she has won several honorable mentions in international photo competitions, among others several honorable mentions of the International Monoawards and the 1st prize (Discovery of the Year) 2019 of the Tokyo International Foto Awards.

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