Pressrelease "Bikeriders for Jesus"

B L A C K J I M G A L L E R Y

proudly presents
BIKERIDERS FOR JESUS
by photographer Magnus Westerborn.
Exhibition opens on the 22:nd of August at 4 pm
(exhibition period 22 august – 3 october 2009)

¨before, the motorcycle was God, now God is God¨
Precher Mike Arnold

In his work BIKERIDERS FOR JESUS Swedish photographer Magnus Westerborn portrays Preacher Mike Arnold and his motorcycle ministry The Christian Crusaders.

Magnus Westerborn:
¬– I met Preacher Mike first time in the 90:s when I visited Sturgis in South Dakota USA taking pictures at the big motorcycle rally. He had his ministry tent in the parkinglot in front of Lynn supermarket.
One evening I visited and the rough looking bikers inside praising God and Jesus aroused my curiousity. Next day I went back and sitting under a tent in the heat Preacher Mike told about his work inside the biker culture. A culture he talked about as his congregation, which embraces clubs like the Hells Angels and Outsiders as well as independent bikers and ordinarly people living in and around the subculture.
Before leaving I took his picture, him sitting on his Harley Panhead, Jesus is Lord written on the tank, looking straight in the camera. The outlook and bike symbolizes strongly the outlaw biker culture but sometimes what we see is not always whats inside.

Some years later Magnus Westerborn travels to USA again to find Preacher Mike, bringing a big print of the portrait from their first meeting in Sturgis. Late one night they meet in a motel in Kennewick, Washington State.
In the following years Magnus Westerborn travels to USA a number of times to meet with Preacher Mike and his Christian Crusaders, working on his pictorial documentary BIKERIDERS FOR JESUS.

Pressrelease pictures at: http://www.westerborn.com/SE/press.htm


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