DMZ: Demilitarized Zone of Korea the United Arab Emirates

the United Arab Emirates

Alongside photographs made in woods

while those on the left-hand page are taken between 1949 and 1978

as well as the ghostly possibility of undoing death through the act of photography

‘While understanding photography as a craft as well as an art

DMZ: Demilitarized Zone of Korea the United Arab EmiratesThis book is Park Jongwoos 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