Manifesto

Invisible Island Publishing
is a small imprint of our studio. We’re developing a photobook culture in Uzbekistan, including Central Asian authors in the international dialogue. We understand the embarrassment and confusion that may arise when trying to understand who the artistic community of Central Asia is.

Through the work of talented individuals and collectives, we aim to weave narratives that delve into their ideas, reflections, anxieties, and positive outlooks—ultimately fostering a deeper understanding of our region and its creative landscape.

 Email us to info@invisibleisland.studio
if you’d like to talk about your project or just to say hi.

Current Project

Our forthcoming project is a publication dedicated
to Uzbek vernacular photography. Little-studied material based on amateur photographs from private collections or family albums will serve as a new entry point to the visual heritage.

After gaining independence in the early nineties, along with the opening of the Iron Curtain, a real photographic boom occurred in the country - the plastic camera became available to the masses. People began to take thousands of photographs of themselves and their loved ones on occasion and for no reason. This massive accumulation of visual information marked a new era.

In the book, where photographs are composed into one collective story, they are also valuable in the post-Soviet optic, when Western culture began to change the lives of ordinary people, their identities, habits, and ideas about the world, revealing related processes - unemployment and the search for income, first trips abroad, new professions, and emigration.

  We consider this book as new experience in the study of the visual history of Uzbek society—lived and captured by themselves.