Life in North Korea

In the most recent chapter of her ongoing project, Lee Grant photographed daily life in Pyongyang, and in the remote region of North Hamgyong province.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/life-north-korea

Growing up half-Korean in Canberra, Australia, the photographer Lee Grant knew little of her mother’s upbringing in South Korea. “I was raised in Australia at a time when cultural assimilation was more prevalent than ethnic pride,” she told me in an e-mail. In “The Korea Project,” Grant sought to examine both her own identity and that of the Korean community in Australia.