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Interview with
Pierre Michel Virot

Photographer

Pierre-Michel Virot is a familiar face in the
international community. For decades, he
covered public health issues at WHO and
UNAIDS, he also covered international
conferences and travelled the world and made
us travel with him through his beautiful photos
whether to show case humanitarian, health
and crisis situations and responses to these or
through his amazing artistic pieces.
In 2023, his most recent photos from Uzbekistan
were published in an impressive photo book
entitled Uzbekistan: The Pearl of Central Asia.
The narrative was written by Robert Blum,
with the assistance of the Uzbek Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and the National Human Rights
Council.

Could you please tell us a little about the book
and how it came about?
It started with one of my clients who had the
opportunity to develop a book together with
the Director of the National Human Rights
Centre of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It was
decided to make a promotion book showing
the cultural heritage of Uzbekistan, but also

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