For the past year, I've been focusing on making documentaries about

how people live around the world.

For next set of videos I want suggestions on

where I should go next, and I'm looking

for ideas surrounding a single topic:

Borders

I'm going to go to 6 different borders around the world and look at the

human outcomes of what happens when you

draw lines on a map.

And I haven't picked out these six places yet I'm looking for suggestions.

So you can go to vox.com/borders to submit an idea.

Look at the border between Brazil and Bolivia

Brazil is clearly harvested it's forest

very aggressively leaving few trees

while Bolivia hasn't.

So this random looking straight line on the map

actually determines where a forest end

and affects the people and animals living there

Between Haiti and Dominican Republic,

Haitian women cross a muddy river every morning to sell goods

in a guarded Dominican market for the

day before trekking back at night all

because someone decided to draw a line

at some point on this island.

Interesting borders are everywhere so if something

comes to mind I want you to tell me about it.

Borders aren't always lines between two countries.

Sometimes as interesting state borders,

or borders within a city or even a neighborhood.

Regardless of what kind of border it is I want to go to these places to help humanize the map

and show what borders look like in real life, and the effect that it has on people.

The six documentaries about borders

aren't going to publish until the Fall

but while I'm going to these places and

making these videos I'm going to be up

keeping a travel log on my Facebook page where I'm going to publish

little video dispatches of what I'm seeing and what

I'm learning along the way and

you can follow along if you want to keep up to date

on the progress and hopefully help me out as I'm doing this.

I'm not really sure where I'm going yet or

what's going to happen along the way but

I'm pretty sure it's going to be an adventure