Report On Bike is an independent project of reportage and storytelling from the road.
Since april 2025 I have been crossing Asia by bicycle, collecting stories, photographs, testimonies and fragments of realities often left outside the spotlight: environmental disasters, post-Soviet territories, forgotten peripheries, borders, historical memory, social transformations and everyday life along the road.
Travelling slowly means stopping, listening, observing and allowing places to reveal themselves over time.
This project was born from that idea: crossing territories slowly enough to truly see them.
All the work published on Report On Bike — essays, reportage, photography, field notes and the book I am writing along the journey — is produced completely independently.
There are no editorial offices, sponsors or production teams behind the project.
Reader support is what allows this journey to continue.
How you can support the project
Substack
On Substack I share field notes from the road, unpublished photographs, reflections, behind-the-scenes material and fragments from the book currently in progress.
Direct support
Bank transfer
Emiliano Barbieri
IBAN: IT31C0100537070000000001084
Every contribution, small or large, directly helps sustain:
- the journey itself
- the time needed to write and document
- internet access and equipment
- transportation and logistics
- the possibility of continuing this work independently
But above all, it helps preserve the time required to observe, listen and document these places carefully.
Thank you for being here.
— Emiliano
