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[HanCinema's Digest] Photography and Art

Artist and photographer Ina Jang deconstructs the image of women in 'soft-core' magazines in The New Yorker, see the DMZ with new eyes with these fascinating photographs from two Reuters photographers, Elijah Hurwitz captures life along the border between China and North Korea, and the "Welcome to Joseon" festival transports visitors back to Korea's beloved Joseon era.

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"The Passive Silhouettes of Women in Asian Soft-Core Magazines"

Ina Jang, an American-based artist and photographer, has a new exhibition called "Utopia" that's currently on display at the Foley Gallery, New York. After noticing that most of the female figures in Japanese and Korean "glamour" magazines were depicted as "passive and helpless", Ina recreated some of the iconic poses but removed all details of their body, leaving "just their outer contours, empty from edge to edge, flatly colored in pale peaches, yellows, and pinks, on pastel and neon backgrounds". Writer Katie Ryder has more on Ina and her provocative counter-cultural work in this New Yorker feature...

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"Photographers captured these dismal scenes along the border area between North and South Korea"

Catch these striking images of Korea's infamous DMZ from Reuters' photographers Jung Yeon-Je and Kim Hong-Ji on Business Insider. Over the past two years, Jung and Kim have visited the restricted zone and captured rare scenes from one of the most policed borders in the world today. "The world is watching the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) [...] with bated breath", writes Melia Robinson, just ahead of renewed talk efforts between the political powers that be.

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"A GLIMPSE OF LIFE ALONG CHINA'S BORDER WITH NORTH KOREA"

Wired features 17 incredible photographs by Elijah Hurwitz following his visit to Dandong, China, where he captured life along the icy Yalu river (a natural barrier between North Korea and China). "I wanted to understand how these tensions and expanded UN sanctions might be impacting tourism, trade, and everyday life". You've seen snaps of the DMZ between North and South, now get a window onto North Korea's chilly northern border with China...

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"[Photo News] Back to the Joseon era"

The Korean Folk Village in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, is running an interesting festival until late June. The "Welcome to Joseon" festival will transport you back to Korea's most iconic era. The first event started back in 2013 and recruited part-time actors to roam the square kilometre space to the delight of visitors as they explore the 270 old buildings around the village. Today, in addition to the various performances that take place throughout the day, "visitors can participate in stamp tours, traditional clothing experience and traditional crafts making sessions". Click on through to The Korea Herald to spy some fun pictures of the event...

...READ ON THE KOREA HERALD

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