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Ed Jones
Chief photographer for North and South Korea, based in Seoul.
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Faces of Pyongyang

Thursday 8 December 2016

Since AFP opened a bureau in Pyongyang in September, Seoul-based photographer Ed Jones has been thinking of ways to try to change the stereotypical images that are normally associated with North Korea -- a military parade, or a fleeting photo captured surreptitiously from the window of a bus.

"The idea of a portrait series seemed a good solution that would involve the subjects themselves – a difficult proposition in North Korea where there is an inherent suspicion of foreign media," he writes.

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AFP Photo / Ed Jones

Street photography in a city of masks

Tuesday 23 June 2015

SEOUL, June 23, 2015 - The culprit of this story is hardly an ideal subject for photographers. Invisible to the naked eye, microscopic images of the coronavirus responsible for an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea are fascinating enough, but they do little to illustrate the fear the virus has spread among the population of 50 million.

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