Like nearly everything, travel is many things—most of all, it’s political. There are deep-rooted stories that tie people, place, environment, ecology, culture, and heritage that are inseparable from the political tapestry they’re woven into. This is especially true today, as the world experiences an escalated level of depravity, inhumanity, blatant discrimination, ethnic cleansing, resource depletion, environmental degradation, species-agnostic cruelty, and so much more.

When I began documenting my travels some decades ago, I found many resources that shared the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of places, but not too many on the ‘why’. The lens through which travel was viewed was myopic and comfortable. There was a lot of skirting around the realities of what travel really means—not just to the traveller but to the connected experience of it.

We need to remember what we already know—that travel, experiences, and stories that are born from such experiences cannot be separated from the discomfort of politics and privilege. 

I aim to move away from listicles and the like, and write the truth—pleasant or otherwise. My vision is to write courageously, giving space to the people, the creatures, the land, and all of its elements that aren’t typically covered—a storytelling platform that doesn’t shy away from the good and the bad, the pretty and the petty, the rawness of travel and its impact on everyone connected to it.

This platform is openly pro-liberation and freedom for all peoples and nations—anti-genocide, anti-apartheid, anti-discrimination, anti-capitalist, anti-anything that doesn’t support the humanity in us.