This is Mr.Neptune one of Sals larger masks he’s been around since 1938 he is known as the mask of wisdom he has a bunch of interesting ingredients in his papier-mâché mix pyramid scrapings from Egypt, Haitian voodoo dust, Cambodian opium, and secret potions from around the world there is one special ingredient that Sal […]

What you’re looking at is a square foot block of mahogany 1 inch thick on top of it is a super imposed negative on a sheet of glass it was custom-made the year 1929 great uncle Sal wanted to get his first professional promo picture for his mind reading performance also hypnotizing people and playing […]

I have never been a special effects guy or used filters on my cameras, in the 70s and 80s I liked the real deal star filters and polarizers almost made me nauseous But with this new iPhone I could play around a bit and do some effects like this image right here Lisa and I […]

99% of the photos on this website were taking by either my great uncle Sal or myself it’s a family website of over 90 years of imagery even Captain Tony and my dad have some images on here that they have taken every once in a while Sal an myself would purchase an original negative […]

Number one this is not a political website and I am definitely not a political person the image you’re looking at right here is a one of a kind one of the sharpest images you could possibly get from the camera it is the most valuable negative in my collection the offers for it are […]

In 1949 Sal was with the bazaar traveling carnival the world of mirth It traveled up and down from Canada to Virginia his professional name when he performed his mind reading act and hypnotizing people was the great Saltar When I inherited Sals Estate there were over 60 negative boxes mostly large format and a […]

I decided to do something different and went over to the Navy base to shoot the famous Mallory Square sunset ceremony in Key West it was a cloudy day December 8 1977 it was a little different back then 43 years ago

My first roll of black and white film on the Jersey shore I printed it on color paper tried to get some kind of different effect

I very rarely put captions on photographs I think it’s kind of corny I’ll write about them I photographed at this club in Queens number one gay sports club in New York I actually did a documentary if you go to my website portraitsofnewyork.com you will see a category Called called in and out A […]

So here’s a joke an Italian, a Puerto Rican, an a Greek walk into a bar The Puerto Rican guy is 6 foot four 420 pounds the big Greek guy in the back Bobby 6 foot seven 380 and me I’m the little guy 6 foot tall 220 We are at coyote ugly pounding down […]