Bicycles were the only traffic on this dusty country road in the countryside outside Sariwon, south of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.

Suggested hairdos at Ryugyong Center beauty salon, in Pyongyang. No. 18 is the preferred style when wearing a traditional Korean dress.

In one of the dizzying scenes from the Arirang mass games, tens of thousands of schoolchildren hold up cardboard placards to replicate a farm scene while tens of thousands of performers line up in corresponding rows waving plastic greenery.

Korean War veterans enter a cemetery for their deceased fellow war veterans in Pyongyang.

North Koreans dance a traditional folk dance together beneath a huge mosaic of the late leader Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang.

A mass synchronized swimming performance in Pyongyang, in February, 2013.

North Korean babies rest in a row of cribs at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital.

People walk through Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang.

A woman checks her cell phone while ice skating in Pyongyang.

Children in Pyongyang smile after the photographer taught them how to give a high five.

A worker at Myohyang-san, a mountain in North Korea, shouts, "Korea!" and, "Goodbye, friend!" according to the photographer.

North Korean women cycle home from the Kaesong factory park, an industrial complex in North Korea operated jointly by North and South Korea, last year.

A store clerk organizes canned meat in a store in Pyongyang.

People in Pyongyang dance and sing in a park.