Bikers Are Human is a project built on presence, trust, and the belief that every rider carries a story that deserves to be seen, heard, and honored.

Kathryn Anne is the photographer and interviewer behind the project, working with everything from high end DSLR equipment to the raw immediacy of cell phone photography when the moment calls for closeness instead of formality. The medium shifts, but the purpose stays anchored: to document the humanity inside the patch, the leather, the road dust, and the silence most people never slow down enough to understand.

Each session is a conversation before it becomes a photograph. Kathryn enters these moments not as an outsider, but as someone who has spent years walking beside bikers and listening to the quiet layers beneath the surface. Sessions can last anywhere from thirty minutes to two hours, and sometimes the dialogue continues long after the camera stops. The timing is never rigid. Some riders open slowly, others reveal a life story in five minutes. Kathryn lets the biker set the pace.

She often walks up to riders she has never met, guided by instinct and respect. Participation is a mutual agreement built on trust and connection. Many conversations turn into friendships. Some evolve into long term documentation partnerships. A few become the kind of exchanges that stay in your chest for years.

Beyond the portraits and interviews, Kathryn also documents events, rides, charity initiatives, and moments where bikers and the broader community work together for the common good. These scenes show the emotional grounding of unity, the strength of collaboration, and the truth that uniting does not require conforming. The camera captures the way people lift each other, how leadership emerges quietly, and how compassion shows itself in the everyday actions most outsiders never witness.

Riders have expressed what these interviews and photos mean to them:
the breaking down of biker stigmas, the reality of profiling, the frustration of not being seen by cages, the misunderstandings between bikers and society, and the importance of finally having their own voices preserved with honesty.

Photography becomes the anchor of each story. Kathryn uses portraiture, environmental documentation, motion frames, and detail shots such as worn gloves, chrome that has carried a thousand miles, and leather shaped by weather and time to reveal the full person behind the stereotype. Every image holds part of the conversation inside it.

Bikers Are Human is not merely a documentation project. It is a living archive of the road, a bridge between riders and society, a place where the biker community can speak for itself instead of being spoken over. It is a commitment to dignity, understanding, and real dialogue. It is meant to last.

Kathryn walks into every session with gratitude and a clear understanding that even one conversation can shift the way a community is seen and the way a community sees itself. The dialogue can begin anywhere: at a rally, in a parking lot, beside a bike cooling after a long ride. The camera follows the human moment, not the other way around.

Bikers Are Human exists because the biker world is far richer, wiser, and more compassionate than the public has ever been shown. Kathryn is determined to continue documenting these truths, one portrait, one story, one connection at a time.

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