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Jongwoo Park: DMZ - Demilitarized Zone of Korea
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This book is Jongwoo Park's photo-documentation of the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ of Korea, the strip of land dividing North and South Korea. About 248 km long, 4 km wide, and 60 km from Seoul, this buffer zone between the two countries is, despite its name, one of the most militarized borders in the world, operating under strict armistice conditions following the end of the Korean War in 1953. In 2009 the South Korean Ministry of National Defense invited Park to document the DMZ, an area normally inaccessible to civilians and of which no comprehensive photographic record existed. Park did so rigorously until 2012, although the project proved a complex administrative undertaking involving detailed negotiations and planning. An unlikely tension energizes Park's series: the contrast between military presence (seen through barbed wire, outposts, and armed troops which have led to sporadic violence), and the natural beauty of the DMZ. For the isolation of this diverse landscape has allowed it to largely revert to its original state; today it is recognized as one of the world's best-preserved temperate habitats and home to several endangered species of flora and fauna.
Extent: 248 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour throughout
Publication date: 2017-11-01
Size: 28.8 x 21.3 cm
ISBN: 9783958293151
About the Author
Jongwoo Park was born in Seoul in 1958 and practices in the media of documentary photography and video. From 1983 to 1995 he worked for the Korea Times, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as a photojournalist. Park's independent projects focus on documenting vanishing cultures and minority tribes, including a two-decade project on the Himalayan ranges.
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