Photographer Christian Tierney on working with Macklemore at 15: 'A few weeks after I shot a video at his gig in Dublin, Thrift Shop came out, and overnight, he became one of the biggest stars in the world.'
I grew up in Lucan in west Dublin. It was very typical suburban Dublin. We lived in a cul-de-sac, in a housing estate.
I was always creative growing up, always into any kind of visual art: drawing, painting and making things out of Lego. Photography started as something like that. I never thought of it as something that was going to become my career.
I spent almost every day up at the skate park, which is two minutes from my house. Some of the older kids were into making videos of their skate tricks. Naturally, I wanted to do what they did. My dad had a loan of a camcorder from work, so I borrowed that and made a few videos.
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