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We really like Ray Gordon’s pictures. There’s something fundamentally upbeat about them. They’re real. They’re cool. They’re unselfconscious.<\/p>\n

Living tucked up in the offbeat Pacific Northwest of America, Ray has been documenting the lives of his local petrolheaded friends for a while now, as well as travelling around the country shooting all sorts of editorial and commercial work.<\/p>\n

The car and bike culture material came together a few months back in his Portland exhibition Throttled.<\/p>\n

We spoke to Ray about the work and what motivates him.<\/p>\n

Influx<\/em>: Throttled: how did the project come to be?
\nRay Gordon<\/em>: I have been a photographer for 20 plus years and my hobby has been hot rods and motorcycles my whole life. It was about time the two crashed into each other.<\/p>\n

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IN<\/em>: V8 or V Twin?
\nRG<\/em>: I am definitely a V8 guy and a British twin guy. I love cool old V twin choppers but what the V twin guys have morphed into over the years is not my thing. They seem all all be skaters or orthodontists. So weird.<\/p>\n

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IN<\/em>: Why potography?
\nRG<\/em>: I chose photography as a career because I suck at making music. Being a photographer is the second coolest job in the world. Rock Star being the first.<\/p>\n

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IN<\/em>: Why Portland?
\nRG<\/em>: Portland is the best place in the US. A perfect mix of rednecks and liberal arty folks. I love it when they mate. Real estate is still relatively cheap, too, so I can fly off to LA or NY and work but then come back to Portland and my money goes further. This means I can buy 12 beers instead of six.<\/p>\n

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IN<\/em>: What car\/bike do you drive?
\nRG<\/em>: I have a 1951 Chevy Business Coupe Gasser being built by Cody at Hurst Racing Tires and a Hard Tailed late 60’s BSA Chop that Thor at See See Motorcycles<\/a> is building. It sucks having 2 builds going on at once. At the moment I own large piles of really cool stuff that just isn’t on the road yet. But next summer look out!<\/p>\n

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IN<\/em> What’s next?
\nRG<\/em>:Raising my family and continuing to life my life and watch the photos make themselves.<\/p>\n

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www.raygordon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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