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