Noh began his career as a photojournalist. Rooted in this sense of reportage, this image depicts North Korea’s annual Arirang Festival (“Mass Game Show”), last held in 2013 to honor the ruling Kim family and military. A patriotic presentation of music and performances by tens of thousands of dancers and gymnasts, the event is intended to project an orderly, precise, and uniform society. Noh illustrates the country’s desire for conformity in this monochromatic array of North Korean women wearing long, bright yellow traditional dresses and headgear. He also humanizes the performers—and questions the basic premise of a uniform society—by revealing imperfections and variations within each individual’s choreographed movement of the massed, synchronized dance.