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Autoroute Pyong Yang – Kaesong 3.02 pm.<br />
Monsieur Lée me dit que la longueur de la route est de 54 km et la largeur de 100 m.<br />
Patrick Swirc<br />
DPRK<br />
“It is impossible to travel alone in North Korea. As soon as you arrive, two guides pick you up. In reality, <strong>the</strong>y act like<br />
policemen. <strong>The</strong>y look at each <strong>of</strong> your actions, each <strong>of</strong> your movements; you are not allowed to do anything without <strong>the</strong>m.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y prevent you from speaking with anybody. As my two guards said it was forbidden to take any photographs, I<br />
decided to photograph <strong>the</strong>m and to write <strong>the</strong>ir comments.” Patrick Swirc<br />
DPKR is an unusual travelogue, depicting Patrick Swirc’s difficult journey through North Korea. Whilst it appears to<br />
depict only that constricted version <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> country he was “allowed” to see, his photographs in fact <strong>of</strong>fer a seering<br />
insight into a country little documented by Western photographers.<br />
Patrick Swirc was born in Saint-Etienne and studied at <strong>the</strong> Vevey School <strong>of</strong> Photography in Switzerland before<br />
following a striptease artist to Pigalle. In Paris he began making portraits and worked as a press photographer, for<br />
journals such as Libération, Elle, Télérama, Studio and Time Magazine. Since abandoning that work he has pursued his<br />
obsession with distant parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world.<br />
Patrick Swirc<br />
DPRK<br />
Book design by Patrick Swirc<br />
32 pages with 29 color plates<br />
17.75 x 13.75 in. / 45 x 35 cm<br />
Clothbound hardcover<br />
$ 90.00 / £ 50.00 / R 75.00<br />
ISBN: 978-3-86521-304-4<br />
PostScript Bild<br />
(9783865213044)<br />
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