{"id":1959,"date":"2011-12-07T11:49:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2011-12-07T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:51:13","slug":"south-african-bicycle-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gudphoto.com\/bikenyc\/2011\/12\/07\/south-african-bicycle-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Bicycle Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photographers Stan Engelbrecht & Nic Grobler have spent 2 years working on their Bicycle Portraits project<\/a> in South Africa. They have cycled over 6000 kilometers and collected over 500 portraits and interviews with everyday bicycle riders in South Africa, a country where bicycles have not really taken off as a commonplace form of transport. The work is absolutely beautiful, and the result of their labors is not 1, not 2, but 3 distinct photo books. They’ve funded the first 2 stages of the project through Kickstarter<\/a> and are trying to do the same for the final stage. There’s only 24 hours to go. A pledge of only $40 will get you a copy of one of the beautiful books. One thing I love about the design is the ingenious hand-painted Google Maps views of where each portrait was taken.<\/p>\n