The Team
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Our Vintagent Team
Paul d’Orleans
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheVintagent.com
Corinna Mantlo
Curator of Film at TheVintagent.com, founder of Via Meccanica
Gary Boulanger
Editor of The Current
Kim Young
Organizing Principal
Debbie Macdonald
Mistress of Minutiae
Our Contributors
The Vintagent is blessed with the most talented and knowledgeable contributors in the motorcycle industry. They are artists, riders, builders, film makers, executives, and all around smart, cultured motorcycle loving people who have helped position our media company to serve our audience and create content that can be found no where else. – Paul d’Orleans
Jay Leno
Guest Editor at TheVintagent.com, star of Jay Leno’s Garage
Bill Phelps
Photographer, Filmmaker
Conrad Leach
Artist
Gary Inman
Publisher of Sideburn, journalist
Rita Minissi
Freelance Creative, Photographer
Hermann Köpf
Co-Publisher of BRUMMM Magazine
David Lancaster
Writer, Publisher, & Filmmaker
Kristina Fender
Photographer
Ian Barry
Artist, Falcon Motorcycles
Maxwell Paternoster
Artist
Dennis Quinlan
Blogger, Historian, Jazz Musician
Alexander Papastrawou
Filmmaker, True Motion Pictures
Timothy Pickering
Writer & Co-Publisher of Franklin’s Indians
François-Marie Dumas
Author and Journalist
Mick Duckworth
Motorcycle journalist and author
Chris Hunter
Founder of Bike Exif
Sebastian Schelly
Filmmaker, True Motion Pictures, Voe
Sven Arning
Filmmaker, True Motion Pictures, Voe
John Joss
Motorcycle Journalist
John de Kruif
Antibody Engineer, Motorcycle Historian
Martin Squires
Artist & Founder of Sketchbook Travels
David Martinez
Photographer, Filmmaker, ‘The Ended Summer’
Jacqui Carriere
Filmmaker, ‘Two Stroked: A Love Story’
Michael Lichter
Photographer, co-Author ‘Cafe Racers’ (with Paul d’Orléans)
Travis Shinn
Photographer, Filmmaker,‘Falcon: Black’
Jalika Gaskin
Crew Chief, Alp Racing & Design
Richard Vincent
Photographer, Filmmaker ‘The Ended Summer’
Julian Balme
Graphic Designer, Writer
Susan McLaughlin
Photographer
Bernard Salvat
Historian, Author ‘Les Motos Francais’
Carmen Gentile
Journalist, author ‘Kissed by the Taliban’
Nish Nalbandian
Photojournalist
Amaryllis Knight
Co-Founder Falcon Motorcycles, Interior Designer
Abhi Eswarappa
Founder Bike-Urious
Chris Kippenberger
Filmmaker, Photographer
Yves Hayat
Photographer, Filmmaker, Musician
Irene Kotnik
Filmmaker, Art Director, founder of Petrolettes, f0under of The Curves Berlin
Nicholas Coleman
Artist, Photographer
Matt Hind
Photographer, co-founder Men’s File magazine
Mark Gardiner
Author
Chris Rausch
Filmmaker, ‘Quake City Rumblers’
Stephen Marino
Filmmaker, ‘TROG‘, ‘The Frozen Few’
Jared Zaugg
Founder, Legends of the Motorcycle Concours
Ian Beaudoux
Filmmaker
JP Defaut
Photographer, Storyteller, Filmmaker, ‘I Am This Motorcycle’
Paolo Asuncion
Filmmaker, ‘The Boutonnier’, ‘Dirtbag 2 ROTR’
Wolfgang Bloch
Artist, Photographer
Cam Elkins
Filmmaker, ‘Stories of Bike’
Heidi Zumbrun
Photographer
Laurent Nivalle
Photographer and Filmmaker
John Christensen
Photographer, founder of Oil&Ink Expo
Chris Illman
Historian, Vintage Sprint Racer
Götz Göppert
Photographer
Nick Clements
Photographer, Filmmaker, Publisher of Men’s File magazine
Michael Lawless
Writer and flat-track racer, Ehorseman.blogspot.com
Michael Calvin Wilson
Design Director for Popular Mechanics
David Morrill
Historian, bike builder, has-been racer racer, Deadly Dave’s Blog
Alp Sungurtekin
Land Speed Record bike builder, engineer, Alp Racing + Design
John Landstrom
Founder, Blue Moon Cycles
Gestalten
Publisher, ‘The Ride’, ‘The Ride: 2nd Gear’, ‘The Chopper: the Real Story’, Gestalten.com