America’s western water crisis is newsworthy on a global level, and the Colorado River—an iconic waterway and challenged resource that supplies drinking water to 40 million Americans—is in the crosshairs. Acclaimed global photographer Pete McBride brings us home to his deepest passion: saving his backyard river. For two decades, McBride has documented the Colorado River, from source to sea. Through stunning imagery and stories of the people and places dependent on it for myriad reasons, McBride shows how the river has become a bellwether of overuse and the climate change crisis. Experience the remarkable beauty and resilience of this ephemeral source of life, something worth celebrating and saving.
Artist Biography
Photographer, filmmaker, writer, and conservationist, Pete McBride has traveled on assignment to more than 75 countries for National Geographic, the Smithsonian Institution, The Nature Conservancy, and Google. A Sony Artisan of Imagery and a National Geographic “Adventurer of the Year,” he has documented remote expeditions from Everest to Antarctica to the Colorado River, resulting in acclaimed books, documentaries, and television programs raising conservation awareness. Following his expedition through the Grand Canyon, McBride released a book, Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim, which won a National Outdoor Book Award. His accompanying feature-length documentary, Into the Canyon, for the National Geographic Channel, won Best Feature at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. In 2021, Rizzoli released McBride’s book Seeing Silence, taking readers on a journey to find the world’s remaining places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul. His new book, The Colorado River: Chasing Water, was published in March 2024.
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