north korea
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 9:30AM Over the last few weeks, several photographs of North Korea have been appearing in media outlets online. Many of them were taken by Reuters photographer, Bobby Yip. A slideshow of his photos can be seen here on the Irish Times photoblog.
North Korea, famously secretive, is not a place one would expect to be able to see many photos from so I was curious how he was able to get them.
Yip explains in this blog post from the Reuters photographers blog.
Except visits to scheduled events, in most cases photographers are not allowed to walk on the street to take photos. Many of my images were shot through the window of a media bus or on one occasion through the window of a train. Watching the street scenes and the village scenes along the way, I felt an isolation between the people and me. I also sensed the isolation between the people themselves. It is the ideology behind the surface which distinguishes North Korea from many other countries, and it shows on the streets.
For more photos from North Korea you can check out the Fotopedia app for the iPad.
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