Artist Ryan McGinley Loads Up His EuroVan and Heads to California — New York Magazine

For the past three months, postadolescent hopefuls—aspiring photographers, local musicians, models—have been getting naked in McGinley’s Lower East Side studio, chatting and bonding while he assesses them for “mellowness and strong personalities.” From 100, he selected fifteen soft-skinned youths to join the road trip in two shifts.