Sam Polcer's New York Bike Style series

    Photo: Sam Polcer

Sam Polcer's portrait series of people with their preferred mode of transport [link] can now be found in all it's glossy photobook glory entitled New York Bike Style [link] which documents pretty much verbatim the title of said glossy photobook. The Book has been published by Prestal [link]   

Looking at his blog Preferred Mode [link] it's clear with the shear frequency of uploads on almost a daily basis is pretty impressive to say the least. Hell, I know how hard it is to post on a semi weekly basisl let alone a daily basis!

Anyway if you are at all into Humans of New York [link] then press the subscribe button on Sam Polcer's RSS feed as well.

Also other photographic bike portrait series to checkout while you are at it.  

Dmitry Gudkov's #BikeNYC Blog [link]

Rapha's Survey Blog [link]

                                              Matthew Reamer's Scraper Bikes series [link]
                                                 Angelo Calilap's Bike/Portrait series [link]
                                       Bicycle Portraits by Stan Engelbrecht & Nic Grobler [link]

Bicycle Portraits

Kleinbooi Kabinde - Kirschner rd., Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa
 taken by Stan Engelbrecht

Stan Engelbrecht & Nic Grobler travelled the vast depths and breaths of South Africa on a two year sojourn to discover the faces of it's cycling culture. To which the portraits and now glossy coffee table book are testimate. I throughly encourage you to checkout thier great work here [link].  

Straight from the horses mouth

" As you'll see we are not photographing people who ride purely for exercise or recreation, but instead we are focussing on those who use bicycles as an integral tool in their day-to-day existence." 

amen to that.