The work of Singapore photographer.

When Singaporean photographer Aram pan was going on a trip to North Korea, I expected to see a very sad, depressing urban landscapes with a very sad beleaguered people he was regularly seen in documentaries BBC.

“I always wanted to see North Korea with my own eyes – says pan. – While we have more pictures from space than from this country. In 2012 I began to send e-mails with requests to allow me to visit North Korea. All these letters are open and anyone can read them online. In the end I responded and sent an invitation. So I arrived in this country. Getting here was much easier than I thought.”

Seen firsthand was not similar to what drew the photographer his imagination. Inside the Communist enclave in 2013, Peng found bustling markets, men and women, tourists in the parks (which, incidentally, seems to be quite Western) and many kilometers of fields with the ripening harvest. Pan said that the whole route accompanied him, but the movement was not limited, therefore, it is certain that he saw a country is more or less what it is.

“If what I saw would have been falsified and embellished by decoration, it would be the perfect organization of local life, much higher than the I know developed countries”.

When Singaporean photographer Aram pan was going on a trip to North Korea, I expected to see a very sad, depressing urban landscapes with a very sad beleaguered people he was regularly seen in documentaries BBC.

“I always wanted to see North Korea with my own eyes – says pan. – While we have more pictures from space than from this country. In 2012 I began to send e-mails with requests to allow me to visit North Korea. All these letters are open and anyone can read them online. In the end I responded and sent an invitation. So I arrived in this country. Getting here was much easier than I thought.”

Seen firsthand was not similar to what drew the photographer his imagination. Inside the Communist enclave in 2013, Peng found bustling markets, men and women, tourists in the parks (which, incidentally, seems to be quite Western) and many kilometers of fields with the ripening harvest. Pan said that the whole route accompanied him, but the movement was not limited, therefore, it is certain that he saw a country is more or less what it is.

“If what I saw would have been falsified and embellished by decoration, it would be the perfect organization of local life, much higher than the I know developed countries”.













































