Rick McGinnis is a Canadian photographer and writer, and was previously a columnist for

Metro newspapers Metro Newspapers, now known as Weeklys, is an American newspaper company based in San Jose, California. It publishes five free alternative weekly newspapers in Northern California: ''Metro Silicon Valley'', ''Good Times'', the '' Pacific Sun'', ...

across Canada. He wrote a sardonic daily TV column called Idiot Box along with DVD reviews, restaurant reviews, entertainment features and even recaps of reality shows. His daily television column was cancelled in early 2009 when Metro laid off all of its writers. He is currently a

freelance writer ''Freelance'' (sometimes spelled ''free-lance'' or ''free lance''), ''freelancer'', or ''freelance worker'', are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance w ...

whose work appears in the ''Toronto Star'' among other venues. Rick's photography has appeared in ''Metro'', Now Magazine,

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, the ''National Post'',

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, the ''Toronto Star'', the ''Village Voice'', the ''New York Times'', ''Esquire, SPIN, Vogue'' (US), ''Entertainment Weekly'' and many other publications. Examples of his work can be found on his website.Rick McGinnis website
/ref> He has shot a number of album covers, including several for jazz musician

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and

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's 1993 album Waiting For You. In 2014 he began a blog,
Some Old Pictures I Took
', devoted to his three decades as a photographer. Photos published on Some Old Pictures, some for the first time, have ended up in box sets b

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and an unpublished portrait of the writer Jay McInerney was featured in a ''New Yorker'
article
on the writer. In the fall of 2018 McGinnis decided to bring ''Some Old Pictures I Took'' to an end, in the interest of publicizing new work on a new blog,
Rick McGinnis Photographs
'. To commemorate the end of the ''Old Pictures'' blog, he self-published
trio of photozines
- ''MUSIC, SQUARE'' and ''STARS'', each devoted to an aspect of his work over thirty years, with photos published on the blog. In 2019 he published three new photozines o
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''FACES, JAZZ'' and ''INSTAGRAM''.

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