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Angelo Victor Mercure was born in 1953 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. He left high school at age 16, lied about his age, and found himself an army infantryman in South Vietnam at age 17. He took up combat photography and became acquainted with John Steinbeck IV (an ex-GI turned Paris Match war correspondent who exposed much US government corruption in complicity with the former Saigon regime). After his honorable discharge from military service, Mercure returned to Saigon as a journalist under his mentor John Steinbeck IV.
Exposing prostitution and drug rackets were Mercure's forte. He was stabbed once and shot twice during the course of his journalistic duties. At various times, Mercure was a stringer/freelancer for The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Reuters, and The Australian Information Agency.
Mercure's fine art photography has been featured in Photo, Picture, CMYK, Blindspot, Taboo, Gallery, Nugget, Marquis, Shiny, and Asian Fever.
Mercure has spent much of the past thirty-five years in Southeast Asia and on America's Pacific Coast. His preferred tools of the trade: a Nikon F5 and a Mamiya 645 PRO TL.


Galleries Which Have Exhibited The Fine Art Photography Of Angelo Victor Mercure:

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, October 2010

THE CHRYSTIE STREET GALLERY, Soho District, New York, New York, September 2005

GALLERIA SCALA, La Jolla, California, January 2002

TODD KAPLAN GALLERY, Los Angeles, California, September 1997

RITA DEAN GALLERY, Gaslamp District, San Diego, California, June 1992

LAWSON - DE CELLE GALLERY, San Francisco, California, April 1986