Eddo Hartmann spent four years photographing North Korea. Now, as tensions rise with the United States, he finds a city on edge. In 2012, Dutch photographer Eddo Hartmann had just wrapped up a photography project about his family and was looking for something less personal for his next venture. Something had been bothering him about the photography he had seen coming out of North Korea: All the photos from the outcast kingdom seemed similar. Big parades, lines of military marching through the streets—and nothing about the daily life of citizens under the infamously repressive regime. He wanted to change that.
-Politico Magazine
