Eight locations, six model castings, one interview, one medium-sized tree of Korean chestnuts, exquisite home cooking – all within sixteen hours of mountain action. What a glorious first day in the 700 Village, located 700 m above sea level and allegedly the optimal altitude for the wellbeing of humans and animals.
Collecting a good armful of these…© Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen …and these. Soyoung Nam, the project manager at The Potatoe Blossom Center gave us a hand. © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Checking if the magic is there through the viewfinder too. © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen The director of the Potato Blossom Center, Suncheol Lee. © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen This man (Jeong Chul wha, the proprietor of our base camp called 700 Village) and his van driving us around his land © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Material and location scouting from the back of a truck comes highly recommended © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Eyes as Big as Korean chestnuts © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Masterminding the operations © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Our 8-point location scouting masterplan © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen There is a lot of public art in Pyongchang, all by the same photographer and curated in the most exciting way! © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Red hot chilli peppers © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Riitta’s Korean sister suddenly showed up! © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Daham doing his thing © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen Our fantastic translator Kyonghee Lee managed to turn hesitation into enthusiastic participation and we will be photographing this duo today! © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen She was doing her usual evening walk when our paths crossed. Naturally we had to stop the car and introduce ourselves. © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen A solid part of our evenings when working on this project includes looking through the images from the day and making these blogposts. There’s nothing like a good screened porch, with a bit of Finnish tango music. © Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen
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