Honorable Mention
Mass Games
DESCRIPTION
Pyongyang, North Korea,For the first time since 2013 and in honor of the 70th anniversary of the creation of North Korea on September 9, 1948, the Mass Games, also known as the Arirang Festival, are held at the May Day stadium in Pyongyang, one of the five largest stadiums in the world.
In addition to the 100,000 volunteer participants on the field performing during the 90 minute event, 17000 students seated in the grandstand facing the public execute a series of images using a card stunt technique whereby following specific directions, with military precision, all 17000 participants simultaneously unfold colored panels to form sweeping grand images. Each person represents a pixel in the overall image. Here the picture of Kim Il-sung the founder of North Korea.
AUTHOR
Alain Schroeder is a Belgian photojournalist born in 1955. In 1989 he founded Reporters (http://www.reporters.be), a well-known photo agency in Belgium. He has illustrated over thirty books dedicated to China, Persia, the Renaissance, Ancient Rome, the Gardens of Europe, Thailand, Tuscany, Crete, Vietnam, Budapest, Venice, the Abbeys of Europe, Natural Sites of Europe, etc. Belgian titles include, « Le Carnaval de Binche vu par 30 Photographes », and « Processions de Foi, Les Marches de l’Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse ». Publications include National Geographic, Geo, Paris-Match,… He has won many international awards and participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide. He is represented in Belgium by Reporters and in Paris by the photo agency HEMIS. 