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What was it like photographing your father?
Rick Castro: It was really interesting. My dad is as familiar with my work as he wants to be or allows himself to be. So I proposed the idea and he just looked at me like I had three eyes and said "Why does [Rick] want me? I’m not model material." And I said "Yeah, but I know you’re photogenic, you have a great look and you’re tall. You’d be perfect." And he said "Well, I’ll do it for you," which I thought was very sweet. It brought a tear to my eye. I’d photographed my dad once before, when I recreated an image of him in his World War II uniform.
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| $RICK CASTRO: AL CASTRO FOR RICK OWENS~2014$ |
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| $RICK CASTRO: AL CASTRO- SLEEK MAGAZINE-2024$ There are so many images competing for our attention these days, but one look at fetish photographer Rick Castro's solemnly beautiful lookbook for Rick Owens’ AW14 Moody menswear stops you dead in your tracks. Here are four older gentlemen, aged sixty to ninety-three, posing almost nude or shrouded in menacing leather and eerily ecclesiastical silhouettes. Castro’s powerful images not only challenge our ideas of beauty and obsession with youth but also the way society has stigmatised the idea of being a sexual being past a certain age. |
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| $RICK CASTRO: AL CASTRO- SLEEK MAGAZINE-2024$ |
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| RICK CASTRO- AL CASTRO IN UNIFORM- 1989 |
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Rick Castro: The thing that endears me so much is you can see in his eyes that he loves me. And it just touches my soul for many reasons. You know, father and son haven’t always seen eye to eye, he doesn’t understand my world, he doesn’t really necessarily accept that I’m gay. And so the only bond is that you can see in his eyes that he loves me, and I just think it’s so sweet how it’ll be like this permanent record no matter how we connected as people. The image will live on and it’s art.
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How was it on the day of the shoot?
Rick Castro: My friend Steven McNicholl gave my dad a nice classic haircut. I dressed him, because he needs a little help, and we did the shoot here at my gallery. I think the entire time he just talked about family issues and how he was annoyed at my aunt and annoyed at the cousin and didn’t really focus on what was actually going on.
When he put on the long leather pullover, very baggy matching shorts and very high leather boots he made the comment "Boris Karloff" which I thought was perfect!
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