Thursday 15 May 2014

Dan Cates

NORTH KOREA – WHAT IS REAL?
Using photography as his chosen medium, the work of Dan Cates often addresses political issues especially those linked to communism and the unique social conditions born of the collapse of the former U.S.S.R.

After numerous trips to much of the Post-Soviet world, it seemed logical that he would eventually visit the world’s last Stalinist dictatorship; The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and in the summer of 2013 he finally did just that. His exhibit represents a small part of an on-going body of work that Cates has been producing since returning from North Korea, a trip that, instead of providing the truth he had hoped to find there, left him confused, and suspicious about many of the people, places, and events he had been shown. It was a trip that forced him to ask his audience the very same question that he had repeatedly asked himself through out the project; what is real?

"Leaders in the living room”, Darkroom print, (Photographic paper), 40x 50cm.

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