Meeting with project participants "(Not) possible to see:
North Korea". Philip Chansel, Alice Welling and Eddo Hartman

A new collective exhibition project “(Not) possible to see: North Korea” will start at the Center for Photography on June 22, in which 9 authors from around the world take part. On the first day of the exhibition, June 22 at 19:00, a meeting will be held with 3 participating photographers who will specially come to Moscow to present their projects.

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The exhibition “(Not) It Is Possible to See: North Korea” will feature more than 70 photographs specially selected for exposure in Russia. They are united by the main idea - to show the possibilities of photography in the study of the image of one of the most closed states - North Korea. At the meeting you can meet photographers Philippe Chansel (France), Alice Welling (Netherlands) and Eddo Hartman (Netherlands).

Philip Chansel made many trips to North Korea. The result was a series of "DPRK" in which Chansel offers an original vision of a closed society. The project was first shown in 2006 at the Meetings in Arles festival, then in Berlin, and later became part of several exhibitions and was published as a book in the Thames and Hudson publishing house. It was this project that brought Chansel international recognition. The result of his subsequent trips to the DPRK was the series "Ariran" (2012), representing the mass celebration of Kim Il Sung’s birthday and the portrait series of North Korean citizens "Kim’s Happiness" (2015).

Alice Welling will present the North Korea: A Life Between Propaganda and Reality project. The series was launched in April 2013. While Western media have closely monitored Kim Jong-un’s test missile launches, Alice Wellinga walked 2,500 kilometers through North Korea. In her works, using the installation technique, she combines the ideal images presented by official state propaganda and the documentary shots she made while traveling around the country.

Eddo Hartman.

Project "Preparing the scene: Pyongyang"

This project is the result of a collaboration between Eddo Hartmann and a North Korean art historian representing the Koryo Studio gallery. The project was shown at the Museum Huis Marseille in Amsterdam and became part of the NK-project at the Seoul Museum of Art in the summer of 2015. The series explores the efforts that were made to create an absolute socialist city and the life of people in it. For any socialist regime, architecture plays a key role in the process of building a new socio-political environment after revolutionary events.

The authors will show their projects that participate in the exhibition, as well as materials not included, talk about their work and share their experiences in North Korea.

Ticket price: full - 430 rubles, preferential - 200 rubles (purchased at the box office of the Center for Photography), World War II veterans - for free