Maria Ramirez-Adams| Fine Art Photographer

"I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac. " Marilyn Monroe

Jenny Lin Kennedy & her husband Reb of WILD Records introduced me to the LA Rockabilly scene when Omar & the Stringpoppers were playing at Crazy Jacks, Viva Las Vegas was the place to go & don't forget the cars.

Gajin Fujita & his band of brothers, fellow graffiti artists from the eastside of Los Angeles, CA.

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.” ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep The city of Lost Angels - people & places. #losangeles, #streetphotography

"Fashion is what you buy. Style is what you do with it.". Images from the LA fashion runways on assignment for Fashion Wire Daily & California Apparel News. Archive of LA designers available.

"She wasn't doing anything that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balacony railing, holding the universe together." JD SALINGER

"My father said you got to be strong, you got to be bold now. He said in the end it's beauty that's going to save the world now." Nature Boy by Nick Cave. I explore the world through my camera and as my parents entered the twilight of their lives I documented the colors and light in nature that gave me peace.

While I was at Otis College of Art & Design I turned the camera on myself to explore my Chicana roots & fascination with Dia de los Muertos.