Biker: Sonny Barger

Photo: Clay Gardner

Photographer Clay Gardner and Self Edge’s Kiya Babzani recently travelled to Cave Creek, Arizona to shoot Sonny Barger for an ad campaign. You may remember the ad that appeared here a couple of months ago. Sonny is one of the founding members of the Hell’s Angels and served four years in federal prison for conspiring to blow up an Outlaws clubhouse in Louisville. After having his vocal cords removed as a result of cancer, Sonny learned to vocalize through the muscles in his throat. Speaking that way, he described Hunter S. Thompson to Kiya as “a coward.”

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Biker: Sonny Barger

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