Chris Marker, "Koreans"

Marker (1921–2012) was primarily known as a filmmaker—the auteur, for example, behind the 1962 classic sci-fi short "The Jetty"—but he was also a photographer. This show presents a series taken on a 1957 trip to North Korea, in which he accompanied some of the last Western journalists to set foot in the country before it sealed its borders to foreigners. Astonishingly, Marker was allowed to work in relative freedom; the result offers a glimpse into a place that has earned the sobriquet the Hermit Kingdom.