Help The Motorcycle Portraits Get To Australia – Adventure Rider

The ongoing photo-motojournalism project of The Motorcycle Portraits is headed to Australia to collect another continent’s worth of work—or at least, that’s the plan. There’s one problem, the same problem that tends to hinder a lot of projects like this: Sorting out the money.

Photographer David Goldman has been working on The Motorcycle Portraits for a few years now—if you get the ADVrider print magazine, you’ve seen his work—we did our best to do them justice when we printed a selection in Volume 5, but to see them properly, you need to visit his website.

We ran a selection from The Motorcycle Portraits in Volume 5 of the ADVrider print journal.

If you visit TheMotorcyclePortraits.net, you’ll see the nearly-150 portraits that Goldman has already done in this series, shooting all over the US, Canada, Europe and even a couple of portraits from Asia—but there’s lots more to explore with this project, starting with Australia.

In a Substack post earlier this month titled When Opportunity Presents Itself, Goldman says the bug to shoot the moto scene in Oz took hold when he was photographing Anne-France Dautheville (the first known female solo RTW motorcyclist) in France.

Anne-France told me of her travels in Australia and I was blown away by them. I then did a little YouTube search and found some great old footage of her and Australian journalist Stewart Faichney touring the country. It was a different time to be sure but I don’t know how one could watch this and not be inspired, I know I was.

Well, it got me thinking. I wonder if I could go to Australia? Could I ride some of the roads Anne-France rode all those years ago?

At this point, Goldman’s lined up a bike to ride while he’s in Oz (the new MV Agusta Enduro Veloce) and Michelin has also contributed to the plan, but he’s still quite short of his goal to take The Motorcycle Portraits down under—like, about $7k short. And he’s hoping some other riders can help him achieve his goals.

Goldman knows how to travel on the super-cheap, so this isn’t him soaking the moto community—he’s been doing most of The Motorcycle Portraits work out of his own pocket, and the work is free to view on his website. If you would like to give back and help him get another continent of work completed, check out his Substack post here—there’s a donation link in the story.