Guardian Camera Club: MarcinMonko on street portraiture

Tractor operation instructors Asan Ismailov and Akylbek Tilienov Photograph: MarcinMonko/Flickr

School girls, main street in Karavan, Kyrgyzstan Schoolgirls, smartly dressed with big ribbons in hair - a typical morning sight in rural Kyrgyzstan. Many of their friends, however, stay home and help their parents in the fields Photograph: MarcinMonko/Flickr

Isabek Asanov, tractor operation student, future lawyerIsabek Asanov, 16, student at the vocational school no 8 in Karavan, Batken region, Kyrgyzstan. The school specializes in agricultural skills, like tractor operation, but Isabek plans a lawyer's career Photograph: MarcinMonko/Flickr

Teacher of car mechanics, school no 8 in Karavan, KyrgyzstanAbdelakim Gaparov, teacher of car mechanics, has been working at the vocational school no 8 in Karavan, in Batken region, Kyrgyzstan, since 2007. Before he worked as an engineer at at a truck garage. Four out of ten of his students leave to work in Russia. He wishes he had more spare parts for the car he uses for training Photograph: MarcinMonko/Flickr

Shamsudinov Jahangir, first-grade student of car mechanics Photograph: MarcinMonko/Flickr

Untitled Photograph: MarcinMonko/Flickr