Pyongyang #[nn]

A lone figure walks beneath the towering Worker's Party Monument — three massive stone hands raising a hammer, a sickle, and a brush against a stark blue sky — in this 2006 Italian-edition graphic travelogue by Guy Delisle. The image captures the quietly unsettling contrast between one small, ordinary person and the monumental propaganda architecture of North Korea's capital. Delisle's clean, minimalist linework makes the cover's political weight land with understated but genuine power.