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

- Ryan Mcginley

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

- Ryan Mcginley

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules.…

- Ryan Mcginley

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 ha…

- Ryan Mcginley

In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd mak…

- Ryan Mcginley

I was never told, "Fags are going to hell." You just didn't talk about it.

- Ryan Mcginley

A camera gives you a purpose.

- Ryan Mcginley

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

- Ryan Mcginley

I was never raised with anybody telling me that gay was bad.

- Ryan Mcginley