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All I do is make photos. It's my life.

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Ryan McGinley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 17
Photographer
Ramsey
New Jersey
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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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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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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 went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
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In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.
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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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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 knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.
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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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Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.
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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'm not going to hide behind anything.
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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'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.
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Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.
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A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.
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A lot of people, even my parents, thought, Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim.
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It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.
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All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.
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