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Very few people have ever seen the inside of North Korea. People know very, very little about the country: it is one of the most isolated, least understood places left on Earth, and part of that reason is that there are very, very few photographs that have come out of the country in the last sixty years, since the armistice and the secession of the war. There's almost no visual record – independent visual record at all – of what life is like for ordinary North Koreans.
What few pictures (= Les quelques/rares photos qui sont sorties) that have come out over the years, are brought to us by State media of North Korea. You know, the photography information, it all flows in one direction. It comes from one place. This is how we get our image of the country. They project an image of… an ideal image, a sanitized picture of their country, a very controlled image… And that's sort of what I'm fighting against. Photography is a very powerful tool, despite the restrictions there…
There's multiple interpretations at every picture. Photography carries a point of view, and a mood, and a sense of the place that I don’t think you can say in any other way, in any other language, without your camera.
Very few people have ever seen the inside of North Korea. People know very, very little about the country: it is one of the most isolated, least understood places left on Earth, and part of that reason is that there are very, very few photographs that have come out of the country in the last sixty years, since the armistice and the secession of the war. There's almost no visual record – independent visual record at all – of what life is like for ordinary North Koreans.
What few pictures (= Les quelques/rares photos qui sont sorties) that have come out over the years, are brought to us by State media of North Korea. You know, the photography information, it all flows in one direction. It comes from one place. This is how we get our image of the country. They project an image of… an ideal image, a sanitized picture of their country, a very controlled image… And that's sort of what I'm fighting against. Photography is a very powerful tool, despite the restrictions there…
There's multiple interpretations at every picture. Photography carries a point of view, and a mood, and a sense of the place that I don’t think you can say in any other way, in any other language, without your camera.