my pictures. I nd that literature triggers a lot of imagery. When I hear sound, I see color. When I think about an artist that I’m going to photograph, I think about colors, and then I incorporate colors into the picture somewhere. I started Whiskey Dregs as an outlet for me to show my poetry and my photography. It started as a one-page zine. It started growing and growing, and then we started doing readings and art shows in 2008 in Astoria at Waltz and Freeze Peach. ere weren’t venues to do stu€ like that in Astoria back then. It was a way of getting my work out there, because I never wanted to rely on anyone. I wanted to do it myself. I started shooting professionally when the Queens Courier hired me to work for them as a freelancer. I learned a lot with them. From there, I started shooting with Urban Daddy and selling prints of my own work. I want to make artful documentary photography of nightlife in New York, and that has been a strong factor in how I make photographs now. Event photography can be something else. It can be artful. We are having an event in March. I wanted to have a salon, where we are creating a space where artists can read and show their artwork and be themselves in a house party setting. I want all of us to create something that is exclusive. e exclusivity is based on talent, and the fact that you aren’t going to tear up my house. My advice to photographers starting o€ in NYC? Work your ass o€ and study. Just work hard. ose are the people that are going to survive. e only ones that survive are the ones that work really hard at what they do and blindly focus. Nothing else, work.
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