Beyond Seeing. Maybe when we think of travel and destinations, we start thinking now, more and more, about the politics and governance that keep nations afloat, given violence and oppression, poverty and need, in places we photograph as backdrops for our IG feeds. Maybe we start telling stories about these places, its peoples, its crises, so we also understand better how resistance and dissent, the fight for freedom and democracy, persist. Some things—the calmness of the provincial, the bowed head in greeting, the easy laughter, the colors of culture, the commitment to faith, the belief in icons—some things we understand, beyond language, given history, given what ties us together across the SEA. And we tell those stories. #DemocraSEA #demokrASIA #myanmar #myanmar🇲🇲 #democracy #AsiaUnderThreat 📷 from a 2017 trip to Bagan, an ancient city in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. https://www.instagram.com/p/CK1fREZBelR/?igshid=3luxsu7xfcu6