Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.
The dazzling photography and eye-opening observations of Anzor Bukharsky, one of Bukhara’s only street photographers.
Before becoming famous for photographing tsarist Russia, Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky captured stunning photos of life in Central Asia more than a century ago.
After a legal battle and widespread controversy over its installation, a communist-era statue to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin will spend the dictator's birthday locked in storage in Germany due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2003, a coronavirus that killed one in every 10 people it infected emerged from China and spread through several countries. Then, within eight months of being detected, it seemingly vanished. RFE/RL asked one of the world’s leading virologists why.
Until the coronavirus crisis, the Czech capital was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and its streets were jammed with tourists. Now, a national state of emergency is in effect, the borders are mostly closed, and everyone in the country is required to cover their face in public. RFE/RL correspondent Amos Chapple recorded these haunting images of the city in lockdown.
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked fears of a global recession. It would not be the first time the world's economy has been rattled. Here are some of the most dramatic financial storms we have weathered before.
It's one of the eeriest sites in the Caucasus, but widely reported stories of locals entombing themselves to save their village from disease are likely only legends.
A small band of Armenians are working around-the-clock to produce and hand out homemade face masks.
An Iranian photojournalist claims her work has been "hijacked" by a World Press Photo Award nominee.
A Lithuanian photographer recalls the night -- 30 years ago -- his country became the first Soviet republic to declare independence.
Thirteen years after his first trip to Uzbekistan, RFE/RL photographer Amos Chapple revisited two of the country’s UNESCO World Heritage sites to find them transformed by the “accelerated development” the country has embraced in order to attract tourism.
Inside the formerly top-secret facility used by the Soviet Union’s space and weapons programs.
A theater in Tashkent has become a cultural battleground between its fans -- including the Uzbek president’s daughter -- and property developers.
Rare archival photographs capture the time U.S. troops and Bolshevik fighters battled each other in the Russian wilderness.
Georgia’s wealthiest man has promised to revive Tskaltubo’s crumbling sanatoriums, but not everyone trusts the deal.
High in the Caucasus Mountains, a former Soviet weapons-research facility now studies mysterious particles streaking in from space.
The work of a forgotten photographer uncovered in a village attic in Moldova.
Russia operates the world’s largest fleet of major icebreaking ships and, in December, the country began sea tests for the most powerful icebreaker ever built. The trials cap a long history of cracking ice for both economic and military advantage in arctic waters.
Photographer Amos Chapple took a "night-mode" enabled smartphone camera to document life in Russia’s north through the polar night.
After RFE/RL broke the story of a secret hoard of photographs discovered in a St. Petersburg attic in 2017, the photographs of Masha Ivashintsova (1942-2000) have become an international sensation.
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