Seamus Ryan (photographer)

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Seamus Ryan is a photographer, born in 1964.{{cite web |title=Seamus Ryan - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp88676/seamus-ryan |website=www.npg.org.uk |publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London |accessdate=26 February 2020 |language=en}}

He learned the basics of photography in Dublin, and came to London around 1990.{{cite web |last1=Riches |first1=Sarah |title=Interview: Seamus Ryan |url=http://www.london-ers.com/2008/03/seamus-ryan/ |publisher=Londoners |accessdate=26 February 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023061414/http://www.london-ers.com/2008/03/seamus-ryan/ |date=5 March 2008|archive-date=23 October 2009}} He has done work for among others Nike, BBC, and British Airways.{{cite web |author1=PA News Team |title=Seamus Ryan's Sunday Shoots |url=http://www.photoanswers.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Event-News/Seamus-Ryans-Sunday-Shoots/ |website=Photo answers |publisher=Bauer Media Group |accessdate=26 February 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318173306/http://www.photoanswers.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Event-News/Seamus-Ryans-Sunday-Shoots/ |archivedate=18 March 2012}}

Ryan performs "Sunday shoots", where he opens his studio to passers-by who wants him to take their picture. On one such occasion he photographed playwright Tom Stoppard, and the picture was purchased by London's National Portrait Gallery.{{cite book |last1=Hodges |first1=Sam |last2=Vickers |first2=Sophie |title=London for Lovers |date=2016 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4481-3088-7 |pages=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-i_RDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT105 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Ltd |first1=Time Out Guides |title=Time Out 2012 things to do in London |date=2012 |publisher=Ebury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4070-1219-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39rpzewrCsgC&pg=PT216 |accessdate=26 February 2020 |language=en}}

In 2007 he founded Boothnation, a company that supplies custom-built photobooths for rental.{{cite news |last1=Rubin |first1=Courtney |title=Smile! Photo Booths Prove You're a Happy Customer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/fashion/photo-boots-warby-parker-topshop.html |accessdate=26 February 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=6 October 2015}}{{cite news |title=Say cheese with a travelling photobooth |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/say-cheese-with-a-travelling-photobooth-6739010.html |accessdate=26 February 2020 |work=Evening Standard |date=13 July 2009 |language=en}}