Tony Mendoza (photographer)

Tony Mendoza (born 1941) is a Cuban-American photographer.

He was born as Antonio Mendoza in Havana and moved to Miami with his family in 1960.

He graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Engineering and Harvard with a Master of Architecture, before becoming a full-time photographic artist in 1973.

Married to Maria del Carmen from Esperanza, Cuba, and they have two children Alex and Lydia.

[1] His most famous book, Ernie, is a photographic memoir centered on a cat he encountered when he moved into an apartment in New York City.