North Korea photographs by David Guttenfelder

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Snapshots from a secret state: Panoramic pictures of North Koreans at work and play give an extraordinary glimpse of everyday life

Award-winning photographer David Guttenfelder, has made a dozen trips into North Korea since 2000, trying to capture the country as accurately as possible for outsiders.

via Mail Online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252102/North-Korea-photographs-David-Guttenfelder.html

“For this project, I used a Hasselblad XPAN, a panoramic-view film camera that is no longer manufactured.

Throughout the year, I wore it around my neck and shot several dozen rolls of color negative film in between my normal coverage of news and daily life with my AP-issued digital cameras.

The XPAN is quiet, discrete, manual and simple. Because it has a wide panoramic format, it literally gives me a different view of North Korea.

The film also reflects how I feel when I’m in North Korea, wandering among the muted or gritty colors, and the fashions and styles that often seem to come from a past generation. “