#photography

Myanmar

When the southwest monsoon arrives, where it falls hardest, and what the wet season actually looks like through a photographer's lens — month by month.

I have shot all of them at dawn and dusk, in monsoon and in dry season. Here is an honest, opinionated ranking of which Southeast Asian country actually photographs best.

The southwest monsoon splits the region in two. Here is who is dry, who is wet, and the one country whose July light is worth booking a flight for.

Myanmar

Myanmar has three seasons and each one rewrites the country's light. A photographer's month-by-month read of the dry-season clarity, the green of the rains, and the weeks Bagan's balloons fly.