“The road is Life”
— Jack Kerouac
Kory Williams is a documentary photographer based in Adelaide, South Australia. He's spent over a decade documenting what most people gloss over: the culture built in garages at 2 AM, the streets when the light's wrong but the moment's right, the lives lived outside the frame of what's considered respectable.
Williams is a member of Adelaide's Dirty Devils Car Club. He doesn't photograph cars, he documents the people who build them, the culture around them, the hours spent under hoods and the nights spent on the road. Hot rod culture isn't a subject for him; it's where he lives.
He shoots with Leica and Hasselblad cameras, preferring the weight and ritual of machines that make you work for the image. His approach is simple: be there, be part of it, don't lie about what you see.
His work has been published in SA Rod & Custom Magazine, Hunter Creative, and Street Photography Magazine. The photography comes from the same place whether he's shooting the Dirty Devils, Adelaide's streets, or anything else that crosses his path, from the inside, without permission, without polish.
Kory doesn't chase perfection. He chases the moments that stay with you after you've looked away.
Black and white photo of a man with long, dark hair, wearing a black shirt, necklaces, and tattoos, with a camera hanging around his neck.