As his latest exhibition, Body Loud, launches at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Shinjuku, artist and photographer Ryan McGinley talks us through the works on show and shares his guide to Japan’s most-vibrant city:

“The exhibition is two gymnasium-sized gallery rooms filled with a selection of my work from the past fifteen years. It includes my earliest photographs from my adventures in New York City’s East Village, as well as work from over a decade of road trips all over America. 

There’s also a wall of black and white studio portraits, a giant concert grid of fans photographed at various music festivals, and some images from traveling on tour with Morrissey. This video is a diary of my recent experience in Tokyo.”

Ryan McGinley’s Tokyo

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