Hiroshi Watanabe: Portfolio 6 - Ideology

Hiroshi Watanabe... Music Band, Pyongyang School, North Korea (2007, Pigment Print). From Hiroshi Watanabe: Portfolio 6 - Ideology at Meter Gallery. "...'The news about North Korea was all negative,' Hiroshi Watanabe says. 'I thought...there have to be different stories there.' And so he set out to find a different angle on North Korea than its frequent depiction by the media as a nation of oppressed people. What he found was a quiet vibrancy; two lines of schoolgirls scowl in red scarves, a young violinist in a canary-yellow Hanbok calmly appraises the viewer, and a boy soldier smiles bashfully under his exuberant salute."