In 1986 I opened up Terracina West Studios I also got involved with the evil wicked nightlife in New York and New Jersey with a bunch of different magazines and 900 numbers, I had to make a nitch for myself some how, There were way too many photographers out there an Studios, sunset photos weren’t […]
After taking photographs in Key West for seven years of palm trees sunsets and little houses it was time for me to move up north not by choice I really can’t complain I had an unbelievable five years and the most disasters two, For every plus there is a minus in life anyway when I […]
18 years ago I was going through thousands of my great uncle Sals negatives picking out the important ones to print up for my different project back then, I was going through so many negatives my head was spinning and every once in a while one would slip by me like this one if you […]
Don’t get excited guys this is Frank and Johnny they had implants on their butts and breasts took out some wisdom teeth and one of them actually had a rib taken out to give him that hour glass I was a photographer at one of the top gay sports clubs in New York I even […]
When the Indians first came down from Central Florida to the Florida Keys this is what they saw they thought the world was flat and this was the end of the world they would also go on long journeys in the canoes and go from Island to Island to they got to Key West and […]
This was Sals first studio upstairs in his fathers house 1928 Sal just got out of Rahway State prison for arm robbery it was a set up because the police didn’t like the whole mind reading gay thing back then that penitentiary had a juvenile division Sal was 17 The guy in the middle was […]
This was one of great uncle Sal‘s main hangouts the Coral Lounge famous mob night club in Elizabeth New Jersey 40s and 50s This place was right out of Goodfellas. Sal had his name and neon out front he negotiated a deal that he had to perform there five weeks a year remember Sal was […]
There has been many rumors that Sal made over 300 of these masks some not so big I have 74 of them I also have about 100 photographs of masks That don’t exist anymore, I know my great uncle Sal gave away many masks I even brought one over to Tennessee Williams House and Shel […]
One of those great Key West stories that’s my dad and grandfather the guy in the middle one of the most famous treasure hunters in the world Mel Fisher very good friends with my grandfather for over 25 years they became friends the first week Mel arrived To Key West to start the famous search […]
Sometime I’m doing my street photography at all see a couple like this and I know I have to capture it Sometime I’m doing my street photography at all see a couple like this and I know I have to capture it portraitsofnewyork.com