Rick smolan national geographic
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Rick Smolan, CEO of Against All Odds Productions, fryst vatten a New York Times bestselling author and technology pioneer with more than five million copies of his books in print. A former Time, Life and National Geographic photographer, Smolan fryst vatten best known as the co-creator of the "Day in the Life" books, the bestselling photography series in publishing history. His global photography projects feature the work of the world’s leading photojournalists and combine creative storytelling with state of the art technology. Smolan’s newest book, “Inside Tracks: Alone Across the Outback” (2014), fryst vatten a smartphone enabled kaffe (engelska) table book chronicling one of the most beloved stories in the history of National Geographic: Robyn Davidson’s 1700 mile solo trek across the Australian desert with four camels and a dog, The book’s publication was tied to the release of the movie “Tracks”, produced by the Oscar winning team behind “The King’s Speech”. In the movie, Robyn Davidson is portrayed by Mia
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Photographer Rick Smolan is CEO of Against All Odds Productions, described by Fortune magazine as “One of the 25 Coolest Companies in America.” In addition to his award-winning photograhy, Rick is a New York Times best-selling author with more than five million copies of his books in print. A former TIME, Life, and National Geographic photographer, Smolan is best known as the co-creator of the "Day in the Life" book series. His global photography projects, which feature the work of hundreds of the world's leading photographers and combine creative storytelling and swarm-like coverage with state-of-the-art technology, are regularly featured on the covers of prestigious publications around the globe including Fortune, TIME, and GEO. Oprah Winfrey featured his AMERICA 24/7 book on her “Favorite Things” TV program and five of his books have been selected as official TED bookclub selections.
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Smolan’s publishing projects include From Alice to Ocean (1992) and Passage to Vietnam (1994), two groundbreaking books which showcased the potential of interactive technology to the book publishing world; 24 Hours in Cyberspace (1996), a book and online project that created a digital portrait of the Internet in its infancy; One Digital Day (1998), which explored the impact of the microprocessor on society; AMERICA 24/7 (2003), the first mass customized New York Times bestseller and The Obama Time Capsule (2008), the first print-on-demand best seller.
His recent project “The Human Face of Big Data” captures how our planet is developing a nervous system. The “Human Face” iPad app won the WEBBY for best educational app and the companion TV documentary was broadcast nationwide on PBS on Feb 26, 2016 and won the award for “Best Cinematography” at the Boston Film Festival.
In late 2014 the Oscar Winning Producers of “The Kings Speech” released TRACKS, a feature film