Gregg Bleakney

In July of 2005, Gregg sold nearly everything he owned and rode his bicycle from northern Alaska to the southern tip of South America. He pedaled 18,500 miles over twenty-two months and raised $50,000 for the American Diabetes Association. Along the way, Gregg was electrocuted by a lightning bolt and attacked by machete bandits. He also discovered a planet and people that demonstrated their magic time and time again. In Santa Barbara, CA a slick camera salesman talked him into spending two-months of his budget on a SLR camera. He started making pictures for the first time. Those pictures found their way into a coffee table book, “Bicycle Diaries”—it is being packaged for publication by Rich Clarkson and Associates.
The focus of Gregg’s work stems from the cultural and environmental inequities he encountered on his bicycle trip. He likes to make pictures of people doing adventurous things outside too.
Gregg speaks English, Spanish and needs to brush-up on his Portuguese.