For decades North Korea, or the Democratic People s Republic
of Korea (DPRK), has been a country shrouded in secrecy from
the outside world. Little is seen of the totalitarian regime of Kim
Jong-il, son of the great leader Kim Il-sung, or the people of one
of the few Communist-ruled countries in the world.
As a clandestine nation with nuclear ambitions, North
Korea was only recently taken off the U.S. list of states that
sponsor terrorism whilst international NGOs count human
rights in North Korea as some of the worst in the world, with
severe restrictions on their political and economic freedoms.
Freedom of the press is non-existent.
Photographer Irina Kalashnikova and Glyn Ford, a British
member of the European Parliament, visited North Korea in
August 2008. Cameras and visitors are both tightly regulated,
yet they managed to bring back unique images of a population
that were often far removed from our Western preconceptions.
Beaches and mud baths, hairdressers and hospitals, farms
and karaoke bars, these are just some of the places where we
see the North Koreans - as we have never seen them before.
These images feature alongside more familiar scenes of North
Korea, and the most famous spectacle of all, the Pyongyang
Arirang mass games, where thousands perform disciplined
acrobatics and record-breaking formations in dazzling displays.
A fascinating and candid view of the people of this little seen
and understood country - at work, at play, their daily lives
played out in a unique collection of photographs, revelling in the
misnomers of what we imagine life there is really like.
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