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Photographer Rick Gunn tells a story from his bicycle ride around the world.
After three years, across three continents, through 33 countries, award-winning photographer and journalist Rick Gunn will share his stories and images from a 25,000-mile bicycle journey around the world during the Second Annual Lake Tahoe Bicycle Film Festival.
A San Francisco Bay Area native, born in Castro Valley, Gunn combined his love for adventure and outdoors by moving to Lake Tahoe and pursuing a career as a photojournalist, writing and photographing his passions: cycling and nature. Quickly his skills became recognized by the leading press associations in the West and received numerous awards from the Nevada Press Association, California Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Associated Press.
Gunn began his globe-trotting adventure by setting-out from San Francisco in 2005. He went on to cycle across America, Europe, Central Asia, China, Nepal, India and Bangladesh, finishing his tour through Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand.
Ultimately transformed by the scenes of poverty, oppression, and war he'd witnessed along the way, Gunn began volunteering, devoting his photographs and stories almost exclusively to those who were making sustainable differences on the planet.
From the soaring Alps of Western Europe, and dust storms along the Central Tibetan Plateau, to bomb extraction in Southern Laos and AIDS Hospice work in Northeast Thailand, Gunn delivers an audio-visual recount of his journey that you won't soon forget. Gunn is currently in the first stages of editing his journals and 50,000 photos from around the world into a book, then plans to launch a series of speaking engagements (multimedia shows) that will discuss his journey, cycle touring, as well as sustainable issues facing the planet.
Gunn will share his photos and experiences at the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Film Festival presented at two locations in Lake Tahoe.
A San Francisco Bay Area native, born in Castro Valley, Gunn combined his love for adventure and outdoors by moving to Lake Tahoe and pursuing a career as a photojournalist, writing and photographing his passions: cycling and nature. Quickly his skills became recognized by the leading press associations in the West and received numerous awards from the Nevada Press Association, California Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Associated Press.
Gunn began his globe-trotting adventure by setting-out from San Francisco in 2005. He went on to cycle across America, Europe, Central Asia, China, Nepal, India and Bangladesh, finishing his tour through Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand.
Ultimately transformed by the scenes of poverty, oppression, and war he'd witnessed along the way, Gunn began volunteering, devoting his photographs and stories almost exclusively to those who were making sustainable differences on the planet.
From the soaring Alps of Western Europe, and dust storms along the Central Tibetan Plateau, to bomb extraction in Southern Laos and AIDS Hospice work in Northeast Thailand, Gunn delivers an audio-visual recount of his journey that you won't soon forget. Gunn is currently in the first stages of editing his journals and 50,000 photos from around the world into a book, then plans to launch a series of speaking engagements (multimedia shows) that will discuss his journey, cycle touring, as well as sustainable issues facing the planet.
Gunn will share his photos and experiences at the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Film Festival presented at two locations in Lake Tahoe.
