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Celebrating the Vehicular Graffiti of Urban Bike Life
Filmmaker Jeremy Meek showcases the human side of D.C.’s controversial dirt-bike scene.
The photographer Jeremy Meek spent a year-and-a-half chronicling the lives of a community of black dirt bikers in D.C. for his short film “WheelzUp.” Meek was concerned that D.C. dirt bikers are too often regarded as “thugs” or gang members, reinforcing negative racial stereotypes about African Americans. His black-and-chrome five-minute film focuses at the human toll of the police-on-biker wars, revealing the perspective of bikers who want people to know that they aren’t criminals.