Humanity Within the Architecture of Control

A photographic study of daily life in North Korea, examining how architecture, scale, and public space shape movement, behavior, and presence. The work observes how ordinary gestures persist within systems designed to impose order.

North Korea presents daily life within landscapes structured by authority. Streets, monuments, and systems impose order and scale, shaping how people move, wait, and occupy public space.

This series examines the tension between individual presence and the architecture that contains it. Rather than seeking spectacle or revelation, the work observes how ordinary life persists inside rigid structures, where space, routine, restraint, and small gestures quietly define the limits of expression.