On the road in North Korea
Photographer David Guttenfelder became a star on Instagram, thanks to photos of a country that doesn’t even allow it. As the Associated Press Chief Photographer for Asia he helped open the AP bureau in Pyongyang in 2012. His stunning images of North Korea gained him followers around the world.
In this photo, North Korean soldiers gather at a cemetery for military veterans near Pyongyang as they observe Chuseok, Korea’s traditional Thanksgiving holiday.
From the Instagram account of David Guttenfelder
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A man works on his car as others sit next to the sea Wonsan, North Korea, June 21, 2014.
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North Korean workers sort seafood at a factory in Rajin, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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Farmers walk in a rainstorm with their cattle near the town of Hyesan, North Korea in Ryanggang province, June 16, 2014.
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North Korean people rest next to railroad tracks in a town in North Korea’s North Hamgyong province, June 20, 2014.
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A gas station in Hamhung, North Korea, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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Boys play soccer in the town of Hyesan in North Korea’s Ryanggang province, June 16, 2014.
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A hotel employee walks in the lobby of a hotel that accommodates foreign visitors in Chongjin, North Korea, June 19, 2014.
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North Korean soldiers. Two on the bike, one in the sidecar, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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Young North Korean school children help to fix pot holes in a rural road in North Korea’s North Hamgyong province, June 20, 2014.
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An apartment block stands behind hotel room curtains on the main street in Hamhung, North Korea, June 15, 2014.
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A tractor, wagon, and bicycle in the North Korean countryside, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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North Korean men share a picnic lunch and North Korean-brewed and bottled Taedonggang beer along the road in North Korea’s North Hwanghae province, June 16, 2014.
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A North Korean man pushes his bicycle to a village in North Korea’s North Hamgyong province, June 19, 2014.
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Portraits of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are illuminated on a building side as the sun rises over Pyongyang, June 14, 2014.
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“Greetings Earthlings” from Pyongyang, North Korea, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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A preschool playground set, shaped like the North Korean Unha rocket near Pyongyang, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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A deer hoof used as a door handle, hangs from the front door of the home where North Koreans say the late leader Kim Jong Il was born around Mount Paektu in North Korea’s Ryanggang province, June 17, 2014.
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Painted Propaganda, showing North Korean children in armed services uniforms attacking U.S., Japanese and South Korean soldiers, hangs in a room inside a Pyongyang kindergarten, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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Statues of animals playing musical instruments stand along the roadside south of Samsu, North Korea in Ryanggang province, June 16, 2014.
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A group of young North Koreans enjoys a picnic on the beach in Wonsan, North Korea, June 21, 2014.
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Residents of Pyongyang walk by a mosaic of the late leader Kim Jong Il in the 2nd anniversary if his death, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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Passengers walk across the snowy tarmac at Pyongyang’s airport as an Air Koryo flight arrives from Beijing, from the Instagram account of AP photographer David Guttenfelder.
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A North Korean man sits by a cooking fire he built to roast potatoes and chicken in the town of Samjiyon, in North Korea’s Ryanggang province, June 17, 2014.