Born in 1986 in Geneva, Adrien Golinelli has some Suisse, Italian, French, Mexican and Basque blood running through his veins. This diversity is the driving force of his work. Being a contemplative soul, avid of details, he started drawing (since his childhood) before becoming a photographer. With a degree in Literature –he studied Japanese and Chinese– he participated in numerous projects in Asia.
In 2012, Adrien Golinelli decided to join a group of tourists visiting North Korea, trying to make a revealing documentary on one of the most closed countries of the world. During this perfectly guided and protected tour, he tried to capture the other side of the story. “I’ve used what they showed me to show what they tried to hide for me”. Far from a Manichean idea to divide people into tyrants and prisoners, he tried to give us a glimpse of daily life of the North Koreans he met. His series is beautifully strange and balances between photo journalism and political direction in an often embarrassing way: “Living in North Korea is like living in a gigantic theater, decorated with flowers and missiles, directed until the last detail, but it seems that one has lost the screenplay.”
FESTIVAL
Photo Phnom Penh 2013
November 30th – December 31st, 2013
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