By Alan Winslow
In September of 2008, myself and fellow photographer Morrigan McCarthy hopped on our bicycles in Rockland, Maine and rode them 11,000 miles around the United States with a singular goal: to photograph and interview everyday Americans about their views on the environment. We rode from Rockland, ME to St. Augustine, FL to San Diego, CA to Seattle, WA and zig-zagged our way back to New York through the American midwest. We rode through 30 states over 10 months, photographing and interviewing people we met along the way, camping at night and gaining a great appreciation for the kindness of strangers!
Although OBSCURA officially celebrated its one-year anniversary this past April, it’s an enterprise that’s been five years in the making. Ideas are like that – they grow, shift, evolve, and take form over time. What began as an in-house newspaper, published for a community of photography students and teachers, has grown into much more.
