Gay Photographer Michael Alago's Provocative Art Project in Lockdown
By Donald Padgett
Famed Photographer Michael Alago Reflects on Life in Lockdown
Michael Alago, a gay Puerto Rican author and photographer, and a former music executive, has not taken the global pandemic lying down. Alago has explored life under lockdown in a provocative new art project.
I Am Michael Alago, he discusses everything from snorting coke off a restaurant table with Robert Maplethorpe to beating HIV when it was still considered a death sentence by most. He is also the subject of the documentary
Who the F**k is That Guy? The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago, which traces his journey from record executive and producer to photographer and activist, and is now streaming on Amazon Prime.