photographer Victor Cobo

 was born in the same hospital as singer Jim Morrison, Old Melbourne Hospital in Florida. In the mid sixties, my father met my mother in Madrid, Spain, working for the American Space program, NASA. Then we lived in Guam and Florida, they split up and I moved with my mother and stepfather to the San Francisco Bay Area. I was raised in Northern California in a suburban town called Santa Rosa. Currently I am residing in the East Village in Manhattan, NYC. I had a pretty free upbringing as a teenager, free meaning lots of car trips to the Russian River and Goat Rock Beach, where my friends and I socially experimented with substances and listened to a lot of dark rock music. Music like Sid Barrett, The Doors, Ziggy Stardust, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, etc. At one point I even experimented as a musician(singer) with 70′s Glam Rock and early 80′s Punk Rock and even dressed androgynous when our band would perform. I even tried acting a couple of times in small experimental college plays. I started taking pictures when I was 17. Both my father and my stepfather introduced photography to me.

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