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THE VANISHING AMERICA PROJECT
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''Precious aspects of our country and culture are in danger of vanishing within the next 2-3 generations, and photographer/writer Holt Webb is using his artistic eye to tell those stories. '' Beginning in May of 2007, and continuing for the next 5 years Holt will be driving an ecologically-friendly motor home, powered by Vegetable Oil and Solar Energy, around the United States documenting and publishing images and stories of American treasures that could be lost to us during our lifetimes.

The journey began in the mysterious wetlands of the Deep South, and continues up through the Appalachian Mountains and north along the Atlantic Coast. From there he will travel into the countryside of New England, down into the Rust Belt and abandoned industries of the Northeast, then into America’s Heartland in search of farms and smalltown life. In the following years, Holt will visit all 50 states as he makes his way west, seeking out the details of American life – including the Wild Mustangs and iconic cowboys and ranchers of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, the dying shrimping industry on Florida's Atlantic Coast, and a journey through Alaska in search of a vanishing frontier wilderness... just to name a few.

The images he brings back are both beautiful and shocking as we are shown man’s encroachment on nature, nature’s changing ecosystems, and our own forgotten cultural icons.

''“America is changing fast. And, often, change is good. But sometimes change destroys the things we love about our country. Hopefully these images, and the ones that will follow as I travel across the United States, will remind people how precious, how ephemeral, and how important these aspects of our country and our culture are.”''

-- Holt Webb

Articles, presentations, photo essays, books, Fine Art gallery exhibitions, a documentary, and a TV show will be forthcoming. Holt’s progress can be followed at www.VanishingAmerica.net.