The many faces of New York's youth.
with photographer Marie Tomanova, she’d just put on her first solo show at New York’s Czech Institute.chronicled the kids she’d met here since she moved to the city from the Czech Republic, via North Carolina, inspired by a Ryan McGinley photo she saw online. Now, Tomanova has a new book out, with a foreword from none other than McGinley himself. “He actually told me that I should do a book, which was another great inspiration,” she says of meeting her hero.
Looking back eight years ago, if somebody would tell me that this will be happening I would just be like,"Whoa, no way." I saw Ryan's work when I was in North Carolina in 2011, I saw it online somehow it just popped [up]. And I fell in love. And I looked him up, and I looked at his work, and I really love all the kids running in the fields, climbing trees, and all of that. It really resonated with me.
After that came the challenge of how to put this into a book — it can't be that big! So it was a great learning process. And I think, actually looking at the book now, really having it in my hand, I think it looks great. And I'm very happy with it.I love to just walk through the city and see beautiful people. Because you see them every day. Every day there's a person and I walk and I'm like,"Oh, I would like to take a portrait of them.
, I felt like I really wanted him to see my work. So I kind of got the courage, and we went to see Ryan's opening of, which happened last summer. It actually opened a day after my show opened. So I went, and said “Hi” to him, and invited him to come see the show. And he actually did. And he came, he biked from Chinatown all the way to the Upper East Side.
He sat with me for almost two hours chatting, looking at the projection a couple times, taking photos. And we're just talking about people he knew in the pictures, because we actually photographed a bunch of similar people. It was a magical moment for me to just sit there with Ryan and get advice, and he actually told me that I should do a book, which was another great inspiration. He’s an amazing, generous person. And became even bigger inspiration at that moment for me.
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