Richard Branson in a golden lift and Tavi in her bedroom – this guy shoots 'em all

Date
13 March 2015

There are few out there who have shot Richard Branson posing beside a golden lift for Travel and Leisure, or Tavi Gevinson reclining serenely on her bed for The Great Discontent, which leads us to believe that Ryan Lowry is no ordinary photographer. Splitting his time between Chicago and NYC (although his site specifies that he is available for projects “everywhere in the world… E V E R Y W H E R E”) he’s racked up an incredible roster of clients with his candid, dynamic imagery, including Apartamento, commissioners of all things excellent Bloomberg Businessweek, Vice and Condé Nast, as well as a bunch of others. He seems to be part of a new school of portraiture photographers able to bypass all of the stale sitting about making idle conversation and jump straight to the part where you’re having a really good laugh with your subjects, and his work is all the better for it.

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Ryan Lowry: Tavi Gevinson for The Great Discontent

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Ryan Lowry: Tavi Gevinson for The Great Discontent

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Ryan Lowry: Tavi Gevinson for The Great Discontent

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Ryan Lowry: Richard Branson for Travel and Leisure

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Ryan Lowry: Ruth and Marvin Sackner for Apartamento

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Ryan Lowry: Ruth and Marvin Sackner for Apartamento

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Ryan Lowry: Bart Chilton for Bloomberg Businessweek

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Ryan Lowry: Bart Chilton for Bloomberg Businessweek

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Ryan Lowry: For Bloomberg Businessweek

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Ryan Lowry: Chicago Rap Scene report for Juke

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Ryan Lowry: Chicago Rap Scene report for Juke

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Ryan Lowry: On Bop for the Chicago Reader

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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