Every photographer has that one photo that tells 1000 stories since my great uncle Sal always put himself in crazy situations he has a bunch of them, this one here is one of my favorites during World War II and the Korean war great uncle Sal worked for the OSS that was CIA back then […]
Sal got his first camera from his art teacher when he was 15 years old in 1926, She knew he had something her name was Miss Wolf, I started editing my great uncle Sals estate 20 years ago I found an envelope of very old negatives on the envelope that said my first images from […]
1932 Sal was 21 years old he was always going over to New York to buy clothes he was always well-dressed and as far as him coming out of the closet he never came out of the closet he was just gay and didn’t care what people thought back in those days being from an […]
Some people look at Robin Williams as the funniest man on earth and yes he is known for being that, but behind that I discovered there is this real caring person and understanding I was very fortunate to hang out with him one on one for about 10 minutes yes he is hysterical but there […]
In the very early 50s great uncle Sal made a bunch of masks of Hollywood celebrities in drag, There in my collection Elvis Presley, Lucille Ball, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson 20 years ago I had a bunch of them in my store on Prince and Broadway there was this major path demonstration Everybody was smoking […]
40 years ago I was a photographer for the Key West Citizen newspaper, I was very fortunate because back in those days there were all types of things going on in Key West, I got to photograph the largest drug seizures in the state of Florida, all those Tony Montana refugees coming in from Cuba […]
When you’re on the streets of Manhattan as long as I have been you see a lot of things going down, like for instance this barefoot prostitute flying by me I saw her around for a month she always had shoes on I could tell she was on crack big-time, We crossed eye Contact several […]
From my age of 20 to 28 I spent in Key West working for my grandfather part time at his famous bar Captain Tony’s saloon and doing sorts of other things, mid 70s early 80s things were amazing the first six years the next Two years was the most disasters in my entire life even […]
New York City will always be the greatest city in the world and 42nd St. and Broadway will always be the number one Cross Roads of The world and if you were fortunate to be a photographer in the last three decades you got to capture a lot of things, I snuck into many parties […]
If you go to my digital library mia5.com you will see over 65,000 different images I Have taken in New York City in a span of 30 years, The funny thing is I edited 65,000 images out of a quarter of 1 million the stuff that I had to shoot for modeling agencies i usually […]