Bikershot

Bikers say the best views are seen from inside motorcycle helmets, but I find my own views through a lens. Searching, watching, selecting, capturing. Coming home with pixelated memories. Post-production becomes a subtle form of time travel, cropping becomes sculpting, and it’s hard to distinguish between the technical objectivity of the camera and the emotional selectivity of the eye. The 'Bikershot' series can be defined as an on-going collection of portraits of motorcycle riders across Europe. But it is more than that. It is a personal description of the motorcycle sub-culture, delving into ideas of masculinity. And sexuality. This is not a journalistic journey. It is not a documentary approach to describing a community and its inherent codes, attitudes and rules. Rather, it is an exploration of personalities hidden inside leather jackets. And if brands, style and behaviours are the grammar of their language, each one has a unique syntax that is worth deciphering. Tuning in to their visual language was an iterative process; each portrait was built on the previous one, and set the tone for the next. In this way, every session was a new experience, an exploration, a mutual discovery.