{"id":69,"date":"2021-04-15T18:33:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T22:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/?p=69"},"modified":"2021-05-03T12:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:35:44","slug":"tourism-is-gone-the-world-is-lonelier-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editorsvision.com\/thebrink\/2021\/04\/15\/tourism-is-gone-the-world-is-lonelier-this-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of Escapism from a World Without Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Casablanca, Morocco. Credit: Ari Adams<\/p><\/div>\n

Whether it was American college graduates foregoing a trip to Europe last summer (and postponing it once again this summer, too), people from across the globe deciding not to fly to New York to go to Times Square, or the devout delaying their pilgrimages to the holiest places on earth, COVID-19 affected everyone\u2019s travel plans over the past year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meknes, Morocco. Credit: Ari Adams<\/p><\/div>\n

Before the pandemic, people traveled for family, pleasure, work, and religion.\u00a0 It is likely that travel for most of these reasons will resume to levels somewhat similar to<\/span> during the \u2018before times\u2019, but traveling for the sake of pleasure\u2014the least pressing reason to do so\u2014will be affected for years to come by the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fez, Morocco. Credit: Ari Adams<\/p><\/div>\n

I often catch myself daydreaming about a time when I can travel freely once again. \u00a0 In those dreams, I\u2019m travelling for the mere pleasure of travelling. This pleasure comes from my desire to learn from seeing, touching, tasting and hearing with the sole intention of getting out of my comfort zone.\u00a0 Travel takes me out of the world that I am stuck in and lets me start anew, even if<\/span> for just a few days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fez, Morocco. Credit: Ari Adams<\/p><\/div>\n

Travel has brought me friends and experiences that have shaped my life so intensely that I could not possibly be the person that I am today without those experiences and relationships.\u00a0 I cannot imagine what my current life would entail without my past of travel, nor can I imagine my future without it.\u00a0 A world without travel, to me, is a lonely, lonely place.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fez, Morocco. Credit: Ari Adams<\/p><\/div>\n

But the matter of fact is that the day that I keep daydreaming about will not come to fruition for many months, if not years.\u00a0 As the pandemic drags on and the memories that inform my daydreams of travel have become hazy\u2014overpowered by a year spent watching TV in my living room\u2014I find myself drawn to the rolls of film that I shot travelling before the pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fez, Morocco. Credit: Ari Adams<\/p><\/div>\n

Sure, I can look through my phone at the hundreds of photographs I have from my various travelling exploits, but it is the act of scanning and working with a frame of film that brings me back to the moment that I snapped the shot.\u00a0 My inner Roland Barthes reveals itself more clearly when I work with film.\u00a0 Scrolling through the camera roll of my phone\u2014filled mostly with cat pictures and the occasional major life moment or trip to another country\u2014feels like the death of Barthes\u2019 <\/span>Camera Lucida<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Fez, Morocco. Credit: Ari Adams.<\/p><\/div>\n

My family and I traveled to Morocco in January of 2020, two months before the pandemic ended nearly all global travel.\u00a0 Morocco, a country of unrivaled beauty that sits on the gateway of Europe and Africa, shielding the Mediterranean, provided me with one of the greatest travelling experiences of my life.\u00a0 The food brought me to my knees.\u00a0 The art left me in a state of awe.\u00a0 The history left me needing to know more.\u00a0 The people, hospitable like no other, made me not want to leave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fez, Morocco. Credit: Ari Adams<\/p><\/div>\n

This selection of photographs I took in Morocco investigates the feelings of escapism that I have had throughout during the pandemic.\u00a0 They convey the sense of isolation that so many felt during a year without travel.\u00a0 Despite COVID\u2019s effect on our collective senses of loneliness, these photographs show how lonely the world could be before the pandemic.\u00a0 After the whole world simultaneously experienced loneliness, maybe we can rethink the ways that we interact with one another, creating a more inclusive society that addresses the problems that cause the emotion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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