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An immense spectacle: the reflection of an entire country revealed by the ruling dictatorship to tourists. North Korea continually and systematically offers the same imagery... Anyone wishing to record the real life objectively, film or photograph in North Korea, will be sorely disappointed.
Tourists, such as journalists, are told to take images from a particular spot, or a specific angle, and above all, according to a set-up that is written and played out by "actors." They built a hermit kingdom of dreams for millions of real people in a half-century. Leaders of the communist party have written many incredible idiotic quotes about their revered people and declared North Korean society as the best in the world. But between this philosophy and reality, there is a considerable gap. My work was providing evidence of the difference between real life in North Korea and the imagination of the leaders.
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lisa H 7 years ago
And the photgrapher probably just got him killed. He's on display in a tourist city. He's not allowed to make a face.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
Observe the expressions of "joy" on their faces. It seems that they are going to do a very heavy job, beyond their physical strengths.
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nanashi 7 years ago
I once heard that North Korea is 100% literate of all their citizens. I wonder if it's true...
Jim Hubbard 7 years ago
Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Kim Jong Un says it is true.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
As I've had read on another website about education in North Korea, teaching is free. However, students have to pay for their school uniforms, their school bags, their teaching materials, and at the end of each period, they have to leave the school room, as clean as they found it.
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Peyton Maroney 7 years ago
Smiling in public is an American thing. All of the eastern cultures(and most of Europe, save for the UK) consider people who smile in public weird, suspicious or dim-witted. It's a culture-dependent thing.
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Peyton Maroney 7 years ago
You forgot to b***h about their lack of smiles. You are losing shape.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
Take a good look at those expressionless faces. Sincerely, I feel a terrible pain, when I see so many beautiful girls like these, that does not they have even has the pleasure of smiling.
Szama Bensmail 7 years ago
The faces are because the sun is in their eyes that's all.
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CLEMSONFAN 4 years ago
They have to worship their leader like a god and can't even have their own religion.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
Children are ever children. No matter the place where they are living.
Alia 7 years ago
Cute 😊 unless they were told from birth avoid pictures... But if they're just shy CUTE 💗
Peyton Maroney 7 years ago
Certainly. It is a photo of three kids in front of a building, walking back from school. It is daytime and it's mid to late Spring.
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Hawk 7 years ago
Isn’t it illegal to take pictures of the Korean military when they are off duty.
Peyton Maroney 7 years ago
Yes. The photographer is now hanging from 18 lamp posts. And they are coming for you next.
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Shruti Naik 7 years ago
This pic has a unique beauty to it. I wonder what she was thinking or if she even knew you were taking a pic.
Thegreatcountryofverden 7 years ago
Yes, i'm also thinking with my keyboard... ...Your comments are good.
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Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
No, once year they celebrate the history of the country in one of the biggest stadium in the world.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
No matter the place. There's always someone watching over me. Night and day.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
Night and day, they do the same course, and under the same conditions.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
I can not imagine where he must be going, nor what he must be thinking about the dictatorial regime in which he is living.
Peyton Maroney 7 years ago
He's going to your router to pull the plug and save us all your insufferable b******t.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
There is always a megaphone on duty. The choreography of life has to continue.
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Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
National day, i think they all come from the same company or from the same village.
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Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
It is even worst than this !
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Robert O 7 years ago
Sooooo if there are Korean dog meat markets, is this the fate of this one? or is this "production"?
Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
This photo was taken in a tourist visit, we have visited a north korea appartement as exemple, to show us the confort, there was this poor dog, i dont why.
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Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
The library of students. Its a place where they learn, read...
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Robert O 7 years ago
I wonder, if there are so many propaganda pictures of successful agriculture, what goes through the minds of all those who do not have enough food?
Thegreatcountryofverden 7 years ago
The rich people eat most of it, then they throw away the rest.
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Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
Its a factory with workers, they seem to be happy and smiling, but they seem to.
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Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
During the national day, dont know, he cames from the leaders big sculpture to honor them.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
Typically, the North Korean citizen's biotype is thin and short, due to poor diet. In South Korea, the citizen's biotype is well healthier.
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Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
Nice souvenir, tea, coffee on the road.
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Darlon Shelter 7 years ago
All visitors who take a tour of Pyongyang sights are accompanied by a guide. Nobody can leave the pre-established scheme, and neither photograph the city without the permission of this guide.
Didier Bizet (Submission author) 7 years ago
They are in the queue, they are in a fun fair.
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Gayle Bynum Cardosa 7 years ago
You have a great eye for color and composition. Thank you for sharing.
Chance Sherman 7 years ago
I thought North Korea didn't allow almost any photographs of the people or country from tourists..
Didier Bizet (Post author) 7 years ago
everyone can go to north Korea, a bit more difficult for us people at the moment.
Load More Replies... Gayle Bynum Cardosa 7 years ago
You have a great eye for color and composition. Thank you for sharing.
Chance Sherman 7 years ago
I thought North Korea didn't allow almost any photographs of the people or country from tourists..
Didier Bizet (Post author) 7 years ago
everyone can go to north Korea, a bit more difficult for us people at the moment.
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