In Granary Square

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Ceiling at Tash Hauli Palace, Khiva, Uzbekistan

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Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan

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The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan

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Iran: Persepolis, 1st century capital of the world

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Iran's Lut Desert

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At the top of a Zoroastrian Tower of Silence near Yazd in southern Iran
[Photos: Christopher Wilton-Steer]

The exhibition's sponsored by the Aga Khan Foundation, and avoids any politics. Photos of Kashgar in Xinjiang, for instance, talk of the "strikingly diverse population", with no mention of the Uighur genocide. But perhaps that's to be expected. 

Elsewhere in Granary Square: parrots.

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