Nicolas Righetti
The Last Paradise. Image of Contemporary North Korea
Umbrage Editions, New York 2003
Essay by Orville Schell. Epilogue by Nicolas Righetti and Cheong Seong Chang. A tantalizing glimpse into the surreal landscape and psyche of the world's only communist dynasty, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Secretive, paranoid, and unrepentantly militant, North Korea has incubated its own peculiar mix of communist utopianism and personality cult.