{"id":3314,"date":"2011-04-19T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photogeisha.org\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:38:33","slug":"la-metropolitana-di-pyongyang-pyongyang-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"La metropolitana di Pyongyang &#8211; Pyongyang Subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nel bel mezzo di un sonnolento pomeriggio da jet lag, \u00e8 arrivato il regalo pi\u00f9 bello. La metropolitana di Pyongyang.<br \/>\nUn&#8217;autentica discesa nel paese dei balocchi. Un delirio visivo con pochi eguali al mondo.<br \/>\nFosse dipeso da me sarei ancora l\u00ec, come una scheggia impazzita, tra le scale mobili, le piattaforme ed i vagoni.<\/p>\n<p>Purtroppo o per fortuna sono riuscito, dopo lunga e fastidiosa insistenza, a tornare &#8220;sul luogo del delitto&#8221; soltanto il giorno successivo.<br \/>\nLe guide mi hanno guardato con tutta la commiserazione possibile per questa incomprensibile stranezza.<\/p>\n<p>Non riuscivano a capacitarsi di tanta euforia di fronte ad una semplice metropolitana.<br \/>\nSe a questo aggiungiamo il vezzo di fotografare le persone da dietro, \u00e8 mancato poco che non chiedessero il mio internamento in qualche ospedale psichiatrico nord coreano.<\/p>\n<p>La carta per\u00f2 canta e stavolta canta per davvero.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #732d03;\">ENGLISH<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #732d03;\">In the middle of a sleepy afternoon, a great gift woke me up. Pyongyang Subway.<br \/>\nA visit to Toyland. A visual delirium with few equals in the world.<br \/>\nIf it was up to me I&#8217;d still be there, like a loose cannon, between escalators, platforms and rail cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #732d03;\">Unfortunately or fortunately I was able, after a very long insistence, to go back there only the next day.<br \/>\nThe tour guides looked at me pityingly for this incomprehensible weirdness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #732d03;\">They couldn&#8217;t understand all this euphoria for a simple subway.<br \/>\nAdd to this the habit of photographing people from behind, I was lucky they didn&#8217;t request my internment in some North Korean psychiatric hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #732d03;\">Anyway paper sings and it sings for real this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_280_pg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3313 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_280_pg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_299_pg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3315 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_299_pg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_326_pg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3317 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_326_pg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_337_pg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3318 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_337_pg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_615_pg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3319 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/umbertostefanelli.com\/photogeisha\/public\/19_04_11_north_korea_2011_mii_615_pg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nel bel mezzo di un sonnolento pomeriggio da jet lag, \u00e8 arrivato il regalo pi\u00f9 bello. La metropolitana di Pyongyang. Un&#8217;autentica discesa nel paese dei balocchi. Un delirio visivo con pochi eguali al mondo. Fosse dipeso da me sarei ancora l\u00ec, come una scheggia impazzita, tra le scale mobili, le piattaforme ed i vagoni. 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