Meet Terry Joslin

Bikes are My Passion

I’ve been around racing motorbikes for as long as I can remember. From early childhood memories around race bikes and workshops, motorcycles were simply part of life, and that connection shaped everything that followed.

Ten years later I bought my first serious camera, driven by a desire to capture machines that already meant something to me. While working full-time as a sheet metal worker and studying City and Guilds Photography at night school, I began photographing sport for a local newspaper, working with Canon EOS systems and developing both technical and photographic skills side by side.

My background in engineering gives me a different perspective when photographing classic motorcycles. I understand how panels sit, how metal is formed, and how light runs along a curve. When I photograph a machine, I know where the craftsmanship is and what deserves attention.

Professional accreditation through the newspaper led to race meetings across the UK, from club racing to Formula One. Years spent in paddocks, garages and pit lanes taught me how to work calmly and professionally around valuable machinery and focused teams.

By the mid-1990s I was working with national classic motorcycle magazines including Classic Bike, Classic Motorcycle Mechanics and The Classic Motorcycle, producing road tests and feature photography. I also photograph classic race machines in the studio for Classic Racer’s Iconic Metal section, where every surface and detail must stand up to close inspection.

Alongside this work I spent 20 years as a wedding photographer, which strengthened my discipline and ability to deliver consistently under pressure. But motorcycles have always remained the foundation.

My approach is simple: to photograph the machine honestly. Not over-styled or exaggerated, but showing the engineering, the stance and the details that define a properly built or carefully maintained motorcycle.

I work with collectors, restorers, racers and editors who want their machines represented accurately — people who understand that a classic motorcycle is history in metal.

When you work with me you get a photographer who understands classic engineering, works calmly around valuable bikes, and produces images suitable for editorial, archive, sale or private collection.

These machines deserve to be recorded properly — not just for today, but for the future. If your bike matters to you, it will be photographed that way.