Bike Week is the annual motorcycle rally in Daytona Beach, Florida. For ten days every March, Daytona is the site of extreme counterculture behavior, motorcycle racing, and bike-themed events, and draws hundreds of thousands of people internationally. I first traveled to Daytona Bike Week in 1996 and have returned many times since. These photographs represent my perception of the wild ride that is Daytona Bike Week, and the corresponding fever and obsession of riders and motorcycle enthusiasts who live and die by the credo - Any day on two wheels is a good day.

John Bentham is an award-winning photographer specializing in documentary and portraiture. Bentham’s other projects include burlesque dancers, dirt-track car racing, drag queens, Mad Max Wasteland Weekend, roller derby, and underground erotic NYC clubs. Bentham has exhibited internationally, and his work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Life Magazine, The New York Times, People, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, and Vanity Fair. His portrait assignments feature many public figures, including The Black Eyed Peas, Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Kimmel, the immortal Evel Knievel, Eli Manning, Julianne Moore, Rihanna, and SEAL. His corporate clients include AUDI, LG, Mercedes-Benz, Pfizer, Saatchi and Saatchi, Sony, Toyota, United Technologies, and Xerox.