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Bearing Witness to China’s ‘Orwellian Dystopia’
January 2019. Uyghur men walk in the old part of town near the Idkah mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang province.
Kodak deleted these images of Xinjiang. We’re reprinting them. Plus, a conversation with the photographer.
By Suzy Weiss
07.29.21 — International
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Earlier this month, Patrick Wack got a boost any photographer would dream of when Kodak’s Instagram account — 841,000 followers and counting — decided to feature ten photographs from his forthcoming book. It’s called “Dust,” and it chronicles the transformation, over the past half-decade, of the Xinjiang region, the cradle of Uyghur civilization, at the…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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