"DIRT RIDER is
good people writing about
good aspects of the sport."
-Burk Uzzle
Name: Burk Uzzle
Occupation: Free-lance photographer
Profe......... back.round: "I had 'a contract with LIFE Magazine at age 23 and worked
for them for seven years. Then I joined an international agency of free-lance photographers
called Magnum. Through them, I free-lanced for
magazines around the world and did a lot of annual report work for major corporations. After
IS years, I set up my own operation in Philadelphia. I do a wide variety of photography, including my personal work which winds up in museums and books and so forth. I've gone to Daytona almost every year for 14 yelm, and many
of those pictures are in a book I did last year
called All American. They were also a fair part
of a one-man show of my work in the Philadelphia Museum-of Art last year."
enduros and hare scrambles. I love the sense of
exhilaration, being out and ~g in,. the woods."
VI• •s on motorc~cl. photo.raph~:
"I've shot some action, including a story for
Sporn Illustrated on racirig at Daytona, but I
generally do much more of a portrait/people
kind of thing. I don't photograph the sport so
much as those who people it. They're the friendliest people I've ever met, and they love to be
photographed. I find their enthusiasm and
warmth is unexcelled."
Favorite phototlraph: "It's a picture taken
in Daytona of a gentleman in an American flag
jacket., It was taken one of the. ftrst years I was
down there, and, in a way, it epitomizes the kind
of gleeful audacity with which motorcycle people
attack the world. It shows the wonderfully spirited and whimsical attitude about life that they often exemplify,"
Rldln. hl....ry: "My sons wanted horses, but
I thought horses weren't any fun and convinced
them to get dirt bikes. Pretty soon I was pouring
gas for them at races and riding their bikes while
they were in school. I didn't get started in dirt
riding until I was about 31, but was soon riding
. . . .zln.: "DIRT RIDER seems to be written
for intelligent people. The magazine embodies
the spirit of the sport.,.the spirit of what I like'
best about riding. DIRT RIDER is good people
writing about good aspects of the sport,"
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