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Inside Myanmar: Opening Up to the World with @amcaptures

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“The country was just opening up, and it seemed like the right time to go,” says Andre Malerba (@amcaptures), an American photojournalist based in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Two years earlier, after traveling to Nepal and Thailand, Andre had decided to immerse himself in a pivotal moment in Myanmar’s history, as a military government began to relax restrictions on political freedom and foreign visitors.

“I have a front row seat to a country opening up to the outside world, attempting to transition to democracy, and all the awful and great things that go along with it. Things are changing rapidly. A lot of people are now happy to have 3G service and tourism is creating a lot of jobs which many are happy about. But there is also a long way to go in terms of reaching a unified democracy. I’d be lying if I said the majority of people are better off now than they were. While politics, for example, are much safer to discuss openly, life is still pretty brutal in the conflict zones.”

Andre describes a universal, humanistic approach to his work, saying, “Part of being a good photographer is being open and honest with the people you photograph. People can tell when you’re not hiding parts of yourself from them, and I honestly believe it’s appreciated.”

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