I’m Johnny Harris, a video journalist for Vox. I just traveled to 11 countries to report on some unusual state boundaries like a Russian town on the Norwegian island of Svalbard or a North Korean bubble in Japan. AMA!

Hi reddit! You may remember me from posts like this one. I typically post from my handle /u/johnnywharris but doing a takeover for the new Vox handle for this AMA.

6 months ago I asked the internet what interesting borders existed around the world that I should report on firsthand. 6,000 story submissions, 11 countries, and countless drone videos, dispatches and memory cards later, we created six documentaries on what it's like to live at the edge of a nation. I visited:

• The length of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic
• The Arctic, reporting from Svalbard -- the northernmost inhabited place on Earth
• The North Korean community residing in Japan, but pledging allegiance to Pyongyang
• Mexico's border with Guatemala, following the routes migrants take north
• Remote communities in the Himalayas on the border with China and Nepal
• The Spanish enclave of Melilla and the migrant outposts in the hills of Morocco

My biggest takeaway: to know a country's deepest fear, you have to look at its border. Borders can encourage exchange or instigate violence, and classify us, versus them. As political leaders decide the lines on the map, it will always have a human effect.

For me, this was a brand new way of sharing my journey, from capturing my first impressions in short dispatches through to releasing the final 6 polished documentaries. So AMA!

Anything you want to know about this journey, my gear, how this worked, what I saw or learned, or questions about the documentaries themselves - let me know.

Proof: https://twitter.com/johnnywharris/status/940229810592284673

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