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Rick Smolan

Photojournalist, Producer

Rick is a former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer best known as the creator of the 'Day in the Life' book series. As CEO of Against All Odds Productions (which Fortune describes “One of the 25 Coolest Companies in America), Rick's global crowd-sourced photography projects (which also utilize the skills of hundreds of the world’s leading photographers), combine creative storytelling with state-of-the-art technology. His projects each generate hundreds of millions of media impressions and have been featured on the covers of Fortune, Time, and Newsweek.

Untold Story

Rick’s next project will be ‘Planet Sixteen’, a one-month collaborative project (fall 2011) in which millions of 16 year olds worldwide will videotape, photograph, blog, compare and share their own lives daily in real time. Designed as one of the largest social media and crowd-sourced projects in Internet history, the project will result in a TV series, book, traveling exhibits and interactive website.

Books: America 24/7, The Obama Time Capsule, America at Home, Blue Planet Run, From Alice to Ocean, and more

Website: www.AgainstAllOdds.com