Just a quick urban change makers post today in the midst of working from home. I stumbled upon the blog We Are Traffic today on the Visual Supply Co Journal and thought they had a super awesome and simple idea that has been really well executed. Basically Bjorn Lexius and Till Glaser behind the blog wanted to raise bicycle awareness in Hamburg, Germany so they went about doing a series of portraits of people on their bikes and posting them on their blog. The blog has taken off like crazy, with a huge wait list of people wanting to be photographed. This is especially awesome considering they only originally expected to be photographing their friends.
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| Tandem Biking by We Are Traffic via Journal |
Being someone, who admittedly does not currently cycle (due mainly to safety and the huge hills surrounding my home) and understands how much of a challenge it is to get people cycling where I live (Rachel Smith talks a lot about this on her blog) I think it is super cool to have something that shows the diversity within cycling and removes the "lycra only" stigma. That being said, a lot of the portraits are just really fun to look at too and if it can get more people interested in cycling, then thats just great.
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| Aleksandra via We Are Traffic |
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| Malte (and some great street art) via We Are Traffic |
To see a whole lot more bicycle-centric portraits, head over to We Are Traffic and try not to stay there for hours!
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