Bicycle Portraits
Everyday South Africans and their bicycles
Books designed for the Bicycle Portraits project, initiated by Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler. Instead of producing one very large and lavish book, we decided to split the best 162 portraits and stories of cyclists that Stan and Nic photographed during their two-year journey around South Africa over three books. Each book contains a different 54 stories, and also two essays each by local South African and major international cycling figures. We collaborated with South African artist Gabrielle Raaff to create an individual hand-painted watercolour map for each story, based on Google Maps, to indicate the location of each of the portraits. View the entire project of over 500 portraits on www.bicycleportraits.co.za.
2012, published by DayOne Photographs Stan Engelbrecht & Nic Grobler Illustrations Gabrielle Raaff Texts JM Coetzee & Sean O'Toole (blue book), Gary Fisher & Paul Edmunds (yellow book), Leonard Stanford & Tumisang Taabe (green book) 112 pages each Page size 300 x 215mm Hardcover with silver foiling on front & spine, plate-sink on back Full-colour throughout on matte art paper, endpapers and central tip-in on uncoated Binding: threadsewn Three book ribbons
