Rick McGinnis is a Canadian photographer and writer, and was previously a columnist for Metro newspapers across Canada.
His daily television column was cancelled in early 2009 when Metro laid off all of its writers.
Rick's photography has appeared in Metro, Now Magazine, Toronto Life, the National Post, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Village Voice, the New York Times, Esquire, SPIN, Vogue (US), Entertainment Weekly and many other publications.
Photos published on Some Old Pictures, some for the first time, have ended up in box sets by White Zombie, Natalie Merchant and Fela Kuti, and an unpublished portrait of the writer Jay McInerney was featured in a New Yorker article on the writer.
To commemorate the end of the Old Pictures blog, he self-published a trio of photozines - MUSIC, SQUARE and STARS, each devoted to an aspect of his work over thirty years, with photos published on the blog.