Mass Games Pyongyang #09

About Werner Kranwetvogel

Mass games Pyongyang After three intense trips through North Korea, Werner Kranwetvogel now knows just about everything about their famous acrobatic spectacles put on in the capital city Pyongyang’s massive stadium. In 2009 he was in fact the sole western guest to obtain special permission from North Korean officials to photograph the enormous show Arirang with over 100,000 performers. While the pictures published by the North Korean propaganda system showed merely the masses as perfect total ornament, Kranwetvogel was interested in isolating individual performing groups. With a telephoto lens he was able to zoom in on single movements, gestures, and heads from within the… Read more

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