Regional representatives from Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan review efforts to promote a stable and secure Central Asia with U.S. State Department officials.
"I would have never felt the need to do the work if I already had the answers," says photographer Carolyn Drake, who spent six years documenting Central Asia's borders, geography, ethnicities, and tumultuous history.
A Russian security guard is seen walking along the train tracks with the Soyuz rocket in the background at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 26, 2013. (nasa hq photo/Flickr)
