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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, they act like<br />
policemen. They look at each of your actions, each of your movements; you are not allowed to do anything without them.<br />
They prevent you from speaking with anybody. As my two guards said it was forbidden to take any photographs, I<br />
decided to photograph them and to write their 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 of the country he was ‘allowed’ to see, his photographs in fact offer a seering insight<br />
into a country little documented by Western photographers.<br />
Patrick Swirc was born in Saint-Etienne and studied at the Vevey School of Photography in Switzerland before<br />
following a striptease artist to Pigalle. In Paris he began making portraits and worked as a press photographer,<br />
including journals such as Libération, Elle, Télérama, Studio and Time Magazine. Since abandoning that work he has<br />
pursued his obsession with distant parts of the 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 />
US $ 90.00 / £ 50.00 / R 75.00<br />
ISBN 3-86521-304-9<br />
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-304-4<br />
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