Most images of North Korea appearing in the media express just a few aspects of that country ¡ª namely, repression, militarism, poverty, backwardness, gloom.
Often, the form of photographs of that communist dictatorship conveys those ideas, too ¡ª whether by being blurry, taken from a low angle or through a long lens; the implicit message being that the image itself is contraband, a stolen glimpse into a closed world.
But it doesn¡¯t have to be that way.
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