This is an original glass slide from 85 years ago great uncle Sal took this photo I cropped out five sections from the main slide which is in the top left corner

This is an original glass slide from 85 years ago great uncle Sal took this photo I cropped out five sections from the main slide which is in the top left corner

Really like this slide that’s my grandfather captain Tony in the middle with my great aunt Palma great uncle Lou’s wife The rest of the people are a couple more of my aunts and uncles I wasn’t born yet this is in Elizabeth New Jersey Captain Tony bult his own built-in swimming pool he stole […]

Sometime they say a photo tells 1000 stories these two photos right here can tell 10,000 stories before you start reading what I’m going to write tapped his photo to make it larger to get a better look

Sometime they say a photo tells 1000 stories these two photos right here can tell 10,000 stories before you start reading what I’m going to write tapped his photo to make it larger to get a better look

The year 1964 at the time my grandfather Captain Tony was known as that mob guy from New Jersey he came to that little crazy island to hide out in 1947 between the time he arrived till 1964 he bought a bunch of private charter boats two of them were 65 footers one of them […]

In 1977 my dad gave me my first camera within two years I was publishing postcards and images for Key West gift stores I couldn’t wait to go to New York City on a vacation I spent so much time there through my high school years I finally got to go back up north in 1979 this is one of the first photos I took in time square I spent two weeks there and photographed over 20 rolls of film in 1984 I started portraitsofnewyork.com 65,000 images edited out of a quarter of 1 million 30 Years of wild times in New York City

In 1977 my dad gave me my first camera within two years I was publishing postcards and images for Key West gift stores I couldn’t wait to go to New York City on a vacation I spent so much time there through my high school years I finally got to go back up north in 1979 this is one of the first photos I took in time square I spent two weeks there and photographed over 20 rolls of film in 1984 I started portraitsofnewyork.com 65,000 images edited out of a quarter of 1 million 30 Years of wild times in New York City

From 1989 through 1993 I published over 1200 exotic dancers in three different magazines I also did over 200 of their portfolios at the time I probably had the world record while all that was going on I was supplying Howard Stern with most of his Snapple girls that ice tea company right around then the 900 numbers came out you know talk to a sexy girl for $1.99 a minute I’m one of the guys it took most of the photos for the ads

From 1989 through 1993 I published over 1200 exotic dancers in three different magazines I also did over 200 of their portfolios at the time I probably had the world record while all that was going on I was supplying Howard Stern with most of his Snapple girls that ice tea company right around then the 900 numbers came out you know talk to a sexy girl for .99 a minute I’m one of the guys it took most of the photos for the ads

In 2002 I inherited 110 of my great uncle Sals masks with over 20,000 large format negatives with prints and some pretty bizarre artwork soon after I got everything I opened up Terracina West Studios I hung 65 masks throughout the house and studio the mask you’re looking at right here was from a set of twins call to dominatrix twins This is one of the first portfolios I did with the set of twins the other one is it in the frame I like cropping it like this the model was definitely hypnotized By both of the masks

In 2002 I inherited 110 of my great uncle Sals masks with over 20,000 large format negatives with prints and some pretty bizarre artwork soon after I got everything I opened up Terracina West Studios I hung 65 masks throughout the house and studio the mask you’re looking at right here was from a set of twins call to dominatrix twins This is one of the first portfolios I did with the set of twins the other one is it in the frame I like cropping it like this the model was definitely hypnotized By both of the masks

This photo you’re looking at has been published in six different countries and six different languages around the world in 1951 during the Korean War at the time Sal was a undercover photographer for the OSS that was CIA back then he traveled around the world photographing ships in transit and ports he traveled on a couple of different merchant marine ships his cover was working for the seafarers union

This photo you’re looking at has been published in six different countries and six different languages around the world in 1951 during the Korean War at the time Sal was a undercover photographer for the OSS that was CIA back then he traveled around the world photographing ships in transit and ports he traveled on a couple of different merchant marine ships his cover was working for the seafarers union

This is A Cambodian opium den Sal heard so many stories about them, He wanted to check them out for a bunch of reasons first to try to get a photo which almost got him killed great published story with this photo One of the other reasons was he smoked opium before and seemed to […]

One of those special family portraits my grandfather in the middle just got voted in as mayor of Key West my dad‘s living in between Key West in New Jersey still doing his Goodfellow bullshit and me I’m just floating around between both my studios Photographic and publishing exotic dancers I also just had a special on CNBC the Bob Berkowitz show and I was supplying Howard stern with all those crazy Snapple girls

One of those special family portraits my grandfather in the middle just got voted in as mayor of Key West my dad‘s living in between Key West in New Jersey still doing his Goodfellow bullshit and me I’m just floating around between both my studios Photographic and publishing exotic dancers I also just had a special on CNBC the Bob Berkowitz show and I was supplying Howard stern with all those crazy Snapple girls

Three generations of Terracina’s my grandfather 75 years old my dad 55 and I was 35 we just got done finishing off a bottle of scotch in my grandfathers office it was above Police headquarters at that time, last time I went through there I was in handcuffs 1983, My dad and I even snuck […]