Now that I’m banned from entering Burma I find myself thinking back to the many stories about that country, its people and its places. One of these, in a certain sense, is a metaphor for Burma itself. It’s a cocktail of violence, courage, resignation, honour, dishonour and desperation. You’ll find it in the stories section.

If you want to see the images, simply download the new iPad app, PadPlaces, which showcases this and many more photographic stories by Andrea Pistolesi.
This is what Andrea and I do: we go looking for stories and then try to relate them to others.
It’s not always easy and often we just don’t manage it. But whatever the outcome, our work is easier now because of this tool which eschews market logic and enables us to see and discover a world that, in the end, is not so global.