ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Photograph taken on September 8 of 2017, in Pyongyang's Metro.

Shot with Minolta XG-1 on Ilford HP5 film. Developed with Ilfosol3 at home, and scanned with OpticFilm Plustek 8100 film scanner.

After the escalade of diplomatic relationships between North Korea and the occident, I decided to book a tour of Pyongyang, to get a feeling of what life is like in North Korea.

Of course, as a tourist you only get to see what the Regime wants you to see.

Anyway it was a great overall experience.

I submit this photo, that i couldn't resist to take, when I noticed the raised arm statue lining up with that security agent wearing a red armband.
I feel like such details and coincidences, in life, are full of meaning when you start reading trough them.

Also, this photograph gives a good feeling of what the experience as a tourist in North Korea can be summarized to.


I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Sincerely yours,

Jules Le Moal

AUTHOR
My name is Jules Le Moal, I am 27 years old, and I am from Le Mans in France.

I have been working as a waiter for more than ten years now.

My passion for photography started as I traveled in Thailand to follow another passion that was Thai Boxing at the time. It lead me to produce a series of photographs of young boxers in a traning camp of the Bangkok's suburbs.

Since then I explore and experiment with my camera (now a Minolta XG-1 35mm analog camera).

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