The Gaze from the Bicycle is a five-year documentary project born from an unexpected encounter between two strangers who became traveling partners. Together, Marc and Indira Urrutia cycled across fourteen countries of the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia.

The bicycle was never the destination. It was a way of moving through the continent slowly, without prior notice, allowing encounters to happen. Asking for water, a place to camp, directions to the next town, or simply stopping to talk often opened the door to something much greater: conversations that became days of solidarity, generosity, trust, and photographs that could never have been made from a distance.

Along the way, they traveled through mountain villages, Indigenous territories, remote communities, and towns being gradually emptied by migration to urban centers. They encountered places where distance, scarce resources, and isolation shape everyday life, while rapid economic and social change is transforming communities faster than many of them can adapt.

These encounters became the heart of the project. They revealed the resilience of people who live in demanding environments, but also the fragility of cultures and ways of life increasingly exposed to a model of globalization that can erode both natural resources and cultural identity.

The journey also became an exercise in unlearning. Moving by bicycle changed their rhythm; a slower rhythm changed their relationships; those relationships changed the way they photographed and understood the world. Again and again, they became aware of how much they had previously taken for granted.

Through photography, film, and immersive storytelling, The Gaze from the Bicycle explores the human connections that emerge when we move slowly enough to see, listen, and be welcomed. It is a reflection on self-reliance and perseverance, but also on empathy, dignity, belonging, and our shared responsibility toward the communities and environments that sustain us.

Ultimately, the project is not only a record of a journey across the Americas. It is an invitation to reconsider how we move through the world—and what becomes possible when we allow other people to change the way we see it.