Stéphan Gladieu. Students at the first 3D cinema, Pyongyang, North Korea. © Stéphan Gladieu courtesy School Gallery / Olivier Castaing
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Stéphan Gladieu. Corée du Nord
28/01/2023 - 21/05/2023
Musée de la Photographie
Place des Essarts
11, avenue Paul Pastur
6032 Charleroi
www.museephoto.be
For sixty years, North Korea has been raising questions and arousing fascination. The few images that reach us come from the authorities, rare tourists or foreign journalists. These are therefore propaganda pictures, partial and often slanted accounts that are imposed on us, providing little information about the lives of the 26 million people that live in the country.
Stéphan Gladieu sought to make his own approach to the people of North Korea. During various stays in Pyongyang and in the Korean countryside, the French photographer took a fresh look at a country in the making. He did so without preconceptions, without militantism and without denunciation, succeeding in unravelling the individual from within the group. Stephan Gladieu indeed endeavoured to define a genuine typology, crossing men, women and children, trades and professions, in their workplace and during their leisure time. The portraits of individual figures or groups tap into our need to interpret them in various ways, capturing types and categories like August Sander.
Stéphan Gladieu was born in 1969; he lives and works in Paris. He began his career as a photographer in 1989 covering the news and the major conflicts that shook the world (the fall of Ceausescu, the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans, etc.). During these years working on feature stories, he developed a personal style based on portraits, combining aesthetic research and rigorous documentary work.
28/01/2023 - 21/05/2023
Musée de la Photographie
Place des Essarts
11, avenue Paul Pastur
6032 Charleroi
www.museephoto.be
For sixty years, North Korea has been raising questions and arousing fascination. The few images that reach us come from the authorities, rare tourists or foreign journalists. These are therefore propaganda pictures, partial and often slanted accounts that are imposed on us, providing little information about the lives of the 26 million people that live in the country.
Stéphan Gladieu sought to make his own approach to the people of North Korea. During various stays in Pyongyang and in the Korean countryside, the French photographer took a fresh look at a country in the making. He did so without preconceptions, without militantism and without denunciation, succeeding in unravelling the individual from within the group. Stephan Gladieu indeed endeavoured to define a genuine typology, crossing men, women and children, trades and professions, in their workplace and during their leisure time. The portraits of individual figures or groups tap into our need to interpret them in various ways, capturing types and categories like August Sander.
Stéphan Gladieu was born in 1969; he lives and works in Paris. He began his career as a photographer in 1989 covering the news and the major conflicts that shook the world (the fall of Ceausescu, the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans, etc.). During these years working on feature stories, he developed a personal style based on portraits, combining aesthetic research and rigorous documentary work.