For decades Lisa Ross has been travelling through the Uyghur Homeland and making work observing delicate and quickly dissapearing cultural and religious practice there. She often focuses on shrines to Sufi saints  some of which have been maintained in very remote locations for centuries.  She discusses her work in this video:

Grab her book , it’s beautiful, but it also exposes the fragility of a culture rapidly being subsumed. I find it heartbreaking.