Photo exhibition "It's impossible to see: North Korea" opens in the Photographic Center of the Lumière brothers

Photo exhibition "It's impossible to see: North Korea" opens in the Photographic Center of the Lumière brothers
21 June 2017, Wednesday

Photo exhibition about one of the most closed countries in the world "It's impossible to see: North Korea" will open on June 22 iin the Photographic Center of the Lumière brothers.


"Total in the exposition "It's impossible to see: North Korea" will include more than 70 works by foreign and Soviet authors who visited one of the most closed countries in the world and created a series of reports about the people and life of the DPRK," says the press release of the Center for Photography.


The exposition of the exhibition, which will last until September 3, includes photographs taken during the years of friendship between the USSR and the DPRK, "when the photo played a colossal role in shaping the ideologically adjusted image of a" friendly socialist country. "


"The exhibition includes works by Russian photographers who have visited the DPRK in different years, in particular, photos of masters of Soviet photographs from the TASS archives of authorship of Boris Kavashkin, Victor Sadchikov, Valentin Sobolev, Alexander Shogin are displayed at the exhibition," the exhibition organizers said.

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