“It’s not a cardboard movie facade, it’s a real place—people have lives, they get up and go to work.” —David Guttenfelder

David Guttenfelder has gained intimate access to North Korea, a feat that few other Western photographers or journalists have been able to do. To the rest of the world, North Korea is an isolated place, with only snippets of information about the people or the government leaked out to the global news. But Guttenfelder has made nearly 25 trips to North Korea over the past several years and feels a great responsibility to bring back the pictures that others cannot. Guttenfelder has worked outside of the United States his entire photographic career. He started as a freelance photographer in East

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