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Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.
Ryan McGinley
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Ryan McGinley
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 17
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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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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'm not going to hide behind anything.
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