The image above, together with an accompanying piece of prose about drag racing will be appearing in the forthcoming edition of the only men’s style magazine to be seen dead with, otherwise known as Mensfile. This is particularly heartening news, as I am rather proud of the imagery from that trip and it’s nice to see it appearing in print finally.
Without going into too much detail, the shots were taken at the 17th NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion, which took place in October 2008 at the Auto Club Famoso Raceway , Bakersfield.
I was on the track for most of the weekend, and the racing was an order of magnitude more awesome than any other form of motorsport that I’ve been close too. “Fucking A”, is the expression I think…
I shot on film which seemed to amuse the other photographers present, but I’d like to see their shots next to the ones I had hand printed on fibre-based Ilford paper.
I’ll stick the colour ones up soon…
