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All I do is make photos. It's my life.
Ryan McGinley
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Ryan McGinley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 17
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Ramsey
New Jersey
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I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.
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I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.
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A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.
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When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.
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I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.
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I was studying graphic design at the time, when negative scanners and all that stuff was coming out, and you could do it all in your apartment. So I would shoot, make contact sheets, scan all the cool negatives, and make all these zines and books of my photos to give to my friends. I was really into zine- and bookmaking from skate culture.
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I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.
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The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.
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I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.
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I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.
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I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.
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I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.
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It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.
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You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.
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There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, Waste not, want not.
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I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
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From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.
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The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.
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I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.
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Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.
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