[3] He attended Kentucky Southern College[3] before moving to San Francisco, California, and later, in 1968, to New York City where he witnessed the Stonewall Riots.
[7] He was an assistant to Warhol at the Factory between 1982 and 1984, and took photographs of visiting celebrities, counter-cultural figures and musicians, particularly of punk rock and new wave music stars, such as Ruby Lynn Reyner, Debbie Harry, Jayne County, and the Sex Pistols.
He worked as a tour manager for David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, and Mott the Hoople, among others.
[8] David Bowie was a fan of Andy Warhol's work, and because of that he hired several of the people that were involved in the production of Pork, which included: Leee Black Childers, Cherry Vanilla, and Tony Zanetta.
[11] In 2012, he published Drag Queens, Rent Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars and Punks, a collection of some of his photographs and their backgrounds, which was the subject of exhibitions in London in 2011[12][13] and Los Angeles, California, in March 2014.