Silver in Book/Documentary / 2025 / /
Joyriders
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PrizeSilver in Book/Documentary
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PhotographerAlice Connew, United Kingdom
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Date of PhotographPublished 2024
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Joyriders is the culmination of photographer Alice Connew’s four year investigation of the women motorcycle riders of Petrolettes. Within what is commonly recognised as a traditionally male sport, these women have unapologetically carved out a space to call their own, defiantly declaring, “we ride too”.
The women and their bikes move through landscapes that shift between post-industrial, iron graveyards to genteel cultural landmarks, each location harking back to patriarchal histories in which the women atop their bikes, careening down the roads, become vehicles of radical resistance.
