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3DPRK - North Korea

The largest photography portrait project to date, taken throughout North Korea, offers a new viewpoint of the isolated nation. The "3DPRK" project by Matjaz Tancic uses cutting-edge 3D photography technology to provide a never-before-seen, in-depth look at the country. 

Invited to document North Korea in 3D by Koryo Studio, Slovenian photographer Matjaž Tančič wanted to show something of the people who live there, stripped of rhetoric.

Choosing to take portraits of people in North Korea invites controversy, criticism and significant challenges. In the eyes of the Western world, North Korea is one of the few countries where photographic voyeurism is celebrated.

Working within the rules of the North Korean regime invites accusations of being naïve or, worse, a ‘useful idiot’ for taking on the work of a complex and powerful propaganda machine.

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