THE OBAMA TIME CAPSULE is the latest project from Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt. Smolan is a former TIME, Life and National Geographic photographer best known as the co-creator of the Day in the Life and America 24/7 series. He and his partner, Jennifer Erwitt, are the principals of Against All Odds Productions, which specializes in the design and execution of large-scale global projects that combine compelling storytelling with state-of-the-art technology. Their projects have been featured on the covers of TIME, Newsweek, Fortune and U.S. News & World Report, and more than five million of their books—many of them New York Times best-sellers—adorn coffee tables around the world.
Their books include AMERICA AT HOME, UK AT HOME, Blue Planet Run, America 24/7, One Digital Day, 24 Hours in Cyberspace, Passage to Vietnam, The Power to Heal, From Alice to Ocean, Christmas in America and A Day in the Life of America. Smolan has appeared numerous times on news programs including NBC’s Today show, ABC’s Good Morning America and Nightline, CNN’s The Situation Room and National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered and Marketplace. The Oprah Winfrey Show selected America 24/7 as one of Oprah’s “favorite things” in 2003. Fortune magazine has described Against All Odds as “one of the coolest companies in America.”
Smolan and Erwitt live with their two children in northern California.
Their previous projects include:
AMERICA AT HOME and UK AT HOME were published in April 2008. For these books, 150 of the world’s top photojournalists—and tens of thousands of amateur shutterbugs—fanned out around the United States and the United Kingdom to shoot digital photos of the most important place in their lives: home. These two projects captured the emotions of home: the distinctive rituals, the intimate moments and all the myriad ways in which we work, play, learn, conduct our lives, and interact with friends and family members (and pets!) as we transform our dwellings into our homes. AMERICA AT HOME and UK AT HOME were sponsored by IKEA.
Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Clean Drinking Water to the World was released in November 2007. The book provided readers with an extraordinary look at the water problems facing humanity and some of the hopeful solutions being pursued by large and small companies, by entrepreneurs and activists, and by nongovernmental organizations and foundations. The book was a showcase of powerful, inspiring, disturbing and hopeful images captured by leading photojournalists around the world who documented the human face of the crisis and its possible solutions. One hundred percent of the royalties from this book are being used to provide clean drinking water to people around the world who desperately need it.