Jongwoo Park: DMZ: Demilitarized Zone of Korea, Steidl Book Award Asia 2017

This book is Korean photographer Jongwoo Park’s (born 1958) photo-documentation of the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ of Korea, the strip of land dividing North and South Korea.

About 154 miles long, 3 miles wide, and 37 miles from Seoul, this buffer zone between the two countries is, despite its name, one of the most militarized borders in the world.