Photography book Inside North Korea exposes the beauty of North Korea's intimate spaces

Date
2 July 2018
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Oliver Wainwright

A new photography book provides an insight into the lesser seen intimate spaces of North Korea.

Inside North Korea, a new book by Guardian journalist and photographer Oliver Wainwright charts the history and development of Pyongyang and puts in sharp focus the country’s architecture and local spaces. The project was shot over a week in 2015, and the images explore a western fascination with North Korea, through looking at its capital city and learning about its residents through the spaces they inhabit.

From the mosaic-lined lobbies of Soviet-era health centres to local swimming pools, panoramas of the city, and candy-coloured interiors of brand new theatres, and his photographs shine a spotlight on has historically been seen as a reclusive regime that has remained existing in isolation.

Speaking about the project, Wainwright says, “My photographs are an attempt to offer a glimpse inside North Korea, revealing Pyongyang to be a place of candy-coloured apartment buildings and pastel-hued interiors — a series of precisely composed stage sets that could be straight out of a Wes Anderson movie.”

The book is out on July 12 and available to pre-order now.

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Oliver Wainwright

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Oliver Wainwright

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Oliver Wainwright

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Oliver Wainwright

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