Stunning Pictures of North Korea Industries in 1972
Medical facility. June 1972, Pyongyang, North Korea.
In June 1972, The Toronto Star’s veteran Asia correspondent Mark Gayn was one of four reporters allowed into North Korea. The trip yielded four lengthy feature stories, published in The Star in July 1972, where Gayn detailed the country’s political landscape, then dominated by Kim Il Sung, and its people. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures Socialist Architecture Of North Korea In Pastel Aesthetic
Monument to Party Founding, Axis 1
Cristiano Bianchi
In ‘Model City Pyongyang’, published by Thames & Hudson, Cristiano Bianchi and Kristina Drapic offer the reader an immersion in the heart of the capital of North Korea, to discover its “socialist architecture” and its “grand visions”. Through its buildings, the two Italian architects based in Beijing reveal a city with a strange atmosphere and beauty, between its concrete, its pastel tones, its axes and its symmetry. Continue reading »
