Photos from North Korea's Mass Games

By at 8:43 pm Tuesday, Sep 27


Sam Gellman's tourist photos from North Korea's Mass Games are wonderful and weird studies in repetition at scale, where all sorts of pomp and spectacle are performed with thousands of identically dressed performers in close-order drill, which echoes the enormous housing blocks and all the other mass-scale motifs of Stalinist bureaucracy.

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North Korea [flickr.com]

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