Over the past ten years, Daniel Schwartz, born in Switzerland in 1955, has explored Central Asia and the surrounding regions including Afghanistan, Iran, Mongolia, and Kashmir with his camera. In his photojournalism, essays, and books Schwartz concentrates on “extended time” (Fernand Braudel). His art is informative; his photojournalistic work does not merely react to events but actively seeks out and follows political developments and their social impacts over extended periods of time and over vast geographic areas. “For years my art has told stories about places of the past and the everyday as well as about the journey there. Since every traveler finds his final resting place beside the road, my images of people turning away are also encounters with death – the last of all turning aways.”