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Banned from North Korea
by Eric Lafforgue
This book is available for download on your iPad with iBooks or on your computer with iTunes.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/banned-from-north-korea/id687297046?mt=11
Description
North Korea isn’t a country. It’s an experience. The museums are so vast that they could engulf cathedrals; the immensely wide avenues give a new meaning to the word perspective and above all, the conversations with your North Korean guides are beyond anything Ionesco could’ve imagined.
It’s this amazement of the absurd that Eric Lafforgue was able to capture during his visits to the hermit state.
His photos document an everyday life that seems to be split between the staggering and the downright scary when you consider how the citizens are caught beneath the weight of a family-run dictatorship, reigning without sharing since 1948.
Diego Buñuel
Host of National Geographic "Don't Tell My Mother" serie
Ever since he was young, Eric Lafforgue has been fascinated by far away countries and travelling. He spent some time in Africa when he was 10 years old in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Yemen. He started taking photographs in 2006. Quickly, magazines and newspapers from all over the world began using his work for illustrations on North Korea, Papua New Guinea, the tribes of Ethiopia.... In 2008, his work on the people of Papua is displayed at the prestigious VISA photojournalism festival in Perpignan. Eric Lafforgue spends most of his time travelling the globe to share his encounters, through the perception of an ethnologist and the heart of an artist, privileging the regions or populations in danger and less usually visited countries. His lasts trips lead him to Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Eritrea, Mozambique… He is part of the european leading agency Gamma Rapho and is of the Sony Alpha Team Ambassador. His work about North Korea has been published in: National Geographic, Le Monde, Times UK, Herald Tribune, La Stampa, Sunday Times, The Sun, Telegraph, CNN, GEO, Lonely Planet Magazine, Southern Weekly China… and made Barbara Demick Book « Nothing to Envy » covers in many editions.
The 250 dialogues are drawn from real conversations that I had with my North Korean guides, officials, or people I met during my six visits to North Korea between 2008 and 2012.
In may 2013, the North Korean authorities found my photos on the Internet, leading them to inform me that I was banned from the country as of then.
Eric Lafforgue
The book contains more than 400 pictures, sounds and videos.
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